🪔 For #FindsFriday : This object, discovered in 1629, is the oldest Roman find in Lousonna - modern day Lausanne. The veiled priest with a papyrus scroll pours wine over the animal's forehead, purifying it before immolation. 📸 me
🪔 The victim's entrails were then submitted to the haruspices, who tried to detect omens in them. This bronze applique was probably part of a larger scene, made up of similar pieces attached to the walls of an altar.
#FindsFriday! One of the oldest known musical instruments in the world: a #Palaeolithic#flute made from a #vulture bone some 38,000 years ago! This is one of eight known flutes found on the Swabian Jura. The finds suggest that music played an important role in this region.
Found in the Hohle Fels cave near Schelklingen.
On display at Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren.
#Celtic#FindsFriday#FerrousFriday: "The Kugelstein massif, whose topographical position is characterised by rock faces that partly drop perpendicularly to the Mur, is the narrowest point in the Mur valley north of Graz, Styria. The valley floor of the Mur valley was probably originally impassable, so that the historical path systems bypassed the narrow point via a gentle saddle in the hinterland of the Kugelstein. From this extensive terrain, which is in part difficult to access and today is largely covered with forest, a wide variety of metal finds were recovered through targeted prospecting and partial excavations, the scientific interpretation of which makes a battle site from the early Latène period (Celtic period), i.e. from around 300 BC, appear probable. The contextualisation of the recovered weapon parts as well as the topographical situation give the site at the Kugelstein a unique character. The discovered finds reflect not only the weapon parts lost in the course of the conflict, which also show clear slash marks, but also deliberately deposited or displayed relics that intentionally remained at the site at the time."
Source: Wiederhergestellt 96 Keltische Schlachtfeldfunde aus Deutschfeistritz (bda.gv.at)
#Celtic#FindsFriday#FerrousFriday: "Apart from swords, the most important Celtic offensive weapons found at the battle site near the Kugelstein were iron lance tips. The lance tips consist of a more or less long socket that served to hold the wooden shaft, which could also be fixed in the socket with a nail. This is followed by the so-called blade of the lance, which is the middle part of varying width, consisting of a central ridge and the cutting edges on both sides, which end in the tip.“
Source: Wiederhergestellt 96 Keltische Schlachtfeldfunde aus Deutschfeistritz (bda.gv.at)
#Celtic#FindsFriday#FerrousFriday: "In addition to weapons and their fragments, numerous iron sword chain parts in various forms were also discovered at the battle site not far from the Kugelstein, Styria. The sword belt, also called a coupler, primarily served to fix the sword and its scabbard to the warrior's hip. Extremely solidly manufactured iron chain parts in several parts were used.“
Source: Wiederhergestellt 96 Keltische Schlachtfeldfunde aus Deutschfeistritz (bda.gv.at)
#Celtic#FindsFriday#FerrousFriday: "At the front of the sword chain there was a simple fastener consisting of a hook and an associated eye. At the ring-shaped ends of the multi-part iron chain, which also had eight-shaped intermediate links, the sword scabbard and thus also the sword could be fixed by means of straps made of organic material (cloth or leather).“
Source: Wiederhergestellt 96 Keltische Schlachtfeldfunde aus Deutschfeistritz (bda.gv.at)
#Celtic#FindsFriday#FerrousFriday: "The shape of the sword chains varies. For example, in addition to chains with classic braided intermediate links, we also know chains whose links consist of rings and square bars as well as artistically interwoven iron wires. “
Source: Wiederhergestellt 96 Keltische Schlachtfeldfunde aus Deutschfeistritz (bda.gv.at)
#Celtic#FindsFriday: Torc from the funeral chamber of the 'Princess of Reinheim' with two human heads at the terminals and helmet formed as the head of a bird of prey. Behind each head two heads of predatory cats in relief, dated to around 370 BC.
#Celtic#FindsFriday: The woman in the barrow with a circular trench was an adult who belonged to the social elite and who also held religious-cultic duties of a priestess, healer or seer, thus showing characteristics of a #druidess. The richly furnished grave, dated to around 370 BC, was reconstructed on the grounds of the European Cultural Park Bliesbruck-Reinheim.
Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keltisches_Fürstinnengrab_von_Reinheim
#Celtic#FindsFriday: The objects of the find ensemble next to the left head, such as the bar link necklace with the associated pendants as well as the amber necklace, represent regalia with a religious-cultic character. The minerals found are also to be regarded as magical objects. Together with the amber staff, which is to be assumed as a cult object, and the fact that all these objects were given to the deceased with her in the grave, i.e. were her property, as well as the depiction of an unknown deity on the neck and arm ring, show that the deceased was permanently entrusted with religious-cultic tasks of a priestess, healer or clairvoyant during her lifetime.
The amber stick is listed as "Handle-like amber object with rattle beads". Comparisons with finds in Dürrenberg, Šmarjeta and Vinkov suggest that it was a cult staff.
Interestingly, the mount of the mirror of the „Princess of Reinheim“ shows the depiction of an upper body with a Janus head, the head framed by fish-bubble-shaped leaves reminiscent of the mistletoe crown of the Celtic „Prince“ of Glauberg. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keltisches_Fürstinnengrab_von_Reinheim