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Late Avar Belt Strap-ends from the Archeological Museum in Split
Ante Piteša
; Arheološki muzej Split
Sažetak
ln the early medieval collection of the Archaeological Museum in Split are preserved three bronze strap-ends made by the technique of pouring into a mould, which belong to the late period of the second Avar Khanate, from the end of the 8th and beginning of the 9th century. A larger, unfinished strap-end to weigh down the end of the main belt (H 5602), originates from Biskupija whereas we do not know the precise place where the smaller two were found which acted to weigh down the side belts (H 3510 and H 3511), but they surely originate from Dalmatia (Salona, Narona or Gardun). All the strap-ends are decorated with vegetation motifs which were most typical for the last decades before the collapse of Avar rule being decorations of round vine designs and the tree of life. In the Avar-Slav border area the SJavs also wore individual elements of Avar belt fittings as a decorative part of their dress, which they either acquired through trade or obtained as booty after the war between the Franks and the Avars in which the Slavs fought as allies of the Franks. As the most common artefacts of artistic tradesmanship, strap-ends decorated with round vines and the tree oflife have numerous analogies both in the heartland and on the borders of the Avar territory and they probably arrived in Dalmatia as war plunder. Translation: Nicholas Philip Saywell
Ključne riječi
late avar period; strap-ends; round vine design; tree oflife
Hrčak ID:
81717
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Datum izdavanja:
22.9.2006.
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