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Prehistoric Gold Finds from Dalmatia and Croatian Littoral
Dunja Glogović
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Six pieces of so called endless golden wire were found in Garica on the Island of Krk (VINSKI, 1959, 277, T. III, 19). The old collection of prehistoric finds from Garica in Archaeological museum in Zagreb contains the material which covers a wide range of time, from dagger dated to Br A2 up to the fibulae Certosa from the middle of the fifth century BC (GLOGOVIĆ, 1989, 12sq, 32, 46). Accordinglly, the gold from Garica could not be dated more precisely. In 1939 the Archaeological museum in Zagreb bought the golden jewellery from Privlaka (Nin) said to be found near the chappel in the tumulus. The informations about circumstances were contraversial and Vinski treated the find from Privlaka as a hoard. There are twenty biconical beads, two buttons, several gold bands and two twisted braclets. The chronology of the find is uncertain (BATOVIĆ, 1981, 92, T. 1; DURMAN, 1993, VIII; BALEN-LETUNIĆ, 1993, 88), because the biconcal beads were long-lasting (EFFINGER, 1996, 23sq) and the golden bands were chronologically unsignificant. The two V – perforated buttons of different size were found in Privlaka. This type of button was a common feature of Bell-Beaker complex, which lasted for some three centuries around the years 2600 /2500 BC in Middle Europe (NEUGEBAUER, 1994, 36). A hoard of copper axes was accidentally found at Gripe/Split in the year 1936 (Pl. 1). Ivan Marović has published a drawing of few golden items (Pl. 1, 9) found together with axes (MAROVIĆ, 1953, 127, Fig. 4). The gold has been lost, and the axes were assigned to various types, all dated to Late Copper Age (ŽERAVICA, 1993, 10, 54sq). In the tumulus grave 1 from Živalji/Obrovac (Sinj) one piece of golden wire was found.
Perhaps it was used for hanging a stone object/(?) wristbracer/, which Marović regarded as status symbol (MAROVIĆ, 1984, 48). A dagger with solid handle was also in this grave and a fragment of Litzen poterry. Golden wire was in an grave from site Velike gomile near Čitluk in River Cetina - region, too. Both finds belonge to Cetina - culture, more exactly, the grave Živalji/Obrovac to the transition from the second to the third phase and the grave from Velike gomile to the third phase of Cetina culture (MAROVIĆ, ČOVIĆ, 1983, 209).
The Cetina culture occurred in Dalmatia in Late Eneolithic manifesting the apparent influence of Bell-Beaker coming from inland or possibly from Mediterranean by maritime routes.
Ključne riječi
gold; Garica; Privlaka; Gripe; Cetina culture
Hrčak ID:
787
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16.6.2003.
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