Bracelet with spiral ends - Catalog No. 38

©Hungarian National Museum

Record details

Catalog No.
38
Material
Gold
Origin
Oradea/Nagyvárad, Romania
Date Range
1300-1200 BC
Current Location
Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Bibliography

Mozsolics 1973: 200–201, Plates 83–85, 86:4–9; Kemenczei 1999a:126, No. 51; Kemenczei 1999b:71, Figures 38–39.

Recommended citation

Gyucha, Attila and William A. Parkinson, 2023. Bracelet with spiral ends - Catalog No. 38 for First Kings of Europe: Exhibition Catalog. Version 1. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. https://doi.org/10.25346/S6/LCGG8Q

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This bracelet is part of a hoard that consists of a total of twenty gold bracelets with tapering ends, of which nine are featured in the exhibition, and four heavy gold bracelets with spiral ends. The assemblage represents a characteristic deposition tradition that emerged in the territory of the upper Tisza region and Transylvania during the thirteenth century BC. These gold bracelet hoards show similarities in terms of object types, and they were most likely communal offerings of several individuals.

János Gábor Tarbay