Supplementary notes to the cognition of silver vessels in the territory of the Czech and Slovak republics
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Studia Hercynia |
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| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | silver vessels; Roman period; princely tomb; Holubice; Krakovany-Stráže |
| Description | The aim of this contribution paper is to point out also other possible interpretations of selected silver vessels and to open a discussion. Our interest will be focused on fragments of vessels from a rich cremation grave in Holubice and a cylindrical strainer from tomb No. II in Krakovany-Stráže. The submitted supplementary notes present alternative interpretations to the studied material, thus extending the possible point of view of the studied issues. Nowadays the four fragments from Holubice may only be combined hypothetically. It seems imaginable that the bell-shaped foot and the vessel side with a dished mouth that has a thickened edge could have belonged to each other. A relation of the Roman horizontal handle with the ring and finger rest of a German origin, albeit imaginable, has no parallel. The strainer from tomb II in Krakovany-Stráže certainly does not copy artless kitchen shapes as has been assumed by older research; it belongs to the group of strainers that were inserted into the mouths of utensils. It will certainly be possible to improve and further amend the presented hypotheses by new knowledge with the development of the attitude to the studied issues. |
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