Professional paper

Glass beads and the prehistoric Liburnians

Dunja Glogović

Abstract

Glass jewelry in the Liburnian Iron Age culture is poorly repre­sented, in particular in comparison to amber jewelry. Annular glass beads were found in grave No. 1 from Nin, dated to the 8th century BC. In 1981 an interesting bichrome glass bead with a decorative zig-zag motif was published and it was associated culturally with the finds of the Iapodic glass jewelry. A bead in the same style, with an ornament executed with a yellow glass thread on dark background was found in Gornji grad in Zagreb in the rescue excavations in the 1990s. A similar bead was recov­ered from a grave in the tumulus in Budinjak (Žumberak). This type of yellow ornamented glass beads was called Kompolje type implying among other things its staring point in the area of Lika-Iapodia. Beads with layered polychrome eyes appear only in the final phases of the Liburnian Iron Age (4th-1st century BC). Recently published catalogue of graves from Dragišić1 presented a diverse repertory of glass beads previously unknown in the Liburnian attire of the time.

Keywords

Liburnians; prehistoric jewelry; glass beads

Hrčak ID:

237150

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/237150

Publication date:

21.4.2020.

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