L’aiguière en bronze de la tombe à char de Verna (Isère):une composition tripartite
In 1818 in a tumulus lying to the south-west of the oppidumof Larina, not far from Lyon, one of the richest Late La Tènegraves ever found was excavated by the Count of Verna. Thegrave inventory belonged to the Verna private collection until1995 when it was purchased by Hières-sur-Amby Maison ...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC
2003-01-01
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| Series: | Arheološki Vestnik |
| Online Access: | https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/av/article/view/8410 |
| Summary: | In 1818 in a tumulus lying to the south-west of the oppidumof Larina, not far from Lyon, one of the richest Late La Tènegraves ever found was excavated by the Count of Verna. Thegrave inventory belonged to the Verna private collection until1995 when it was purchased by Hières-sur-Amby Maison duPatrimoine. It remained unpublished until 2002, when it waspresented by Franck Perrin and Martin Schönfelder in thecatalogue of the exibition on the Allobroges. In 2003 the sameauthors edited an excellent publication of the grave. It contained,among other things, the remains of a four-wheel-chariot, weapons(a bronze casket, iron swords, spearheads and shield-bosses)and an extremely large set of Late Republican bronze vessels.The grave was assigned to the phase La Tène D1b and datedbetween 100 and 80 BC.Quite unusual for the period of discovery is the detaileddocumentation, prepared in 1818 by the director of the Museumof Lyon, François Artaud, and consisting of a report, several plateswith drawings and a list of subscriptions. One of the drawings onplate 3 represents a bronze jug with handle and cover.According to the author, the jug has all the characteristicsof Ornavasso-type jugs. However, the handle on the drawingdoes not have the form of either of two types of handles thatmake it possible to subdivide Ornavasso-type jugs into subtypesRuvo and Montefiascone. Obviously the original handle wasnot found by the excavator, but was replaced on the drawingby a handle of an Idrija type beaker, also belonging to the inventory.The supposed cover consists of a round disk and an attachmentwith three protuberances, fastened onto the disk by bronzerivets with red enamel decoration. It can be compared with avery similar object, appearing on Artaud’s plate 1, which stillhad its attachment, now lost, and several other badly preservedobjects of the same form, only briefly mentioned by Artaud.They all belong to a small, but very typical, group of Late LaTène harness pendants. |
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| ISSN: | 1581-1204 0570-8966 |