KELTIKE MAKHAIRA. ON A LA TENE TYPE SWORD FROM THE SANCTUARY OF NEMEA

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
KELTIKE MAKHAIRA. ON A LA TENE TYPE SWORD FROM THE SANCTUARY OF NEMEA
Original language description
A two-edged iron sword was unearthed in a well in the sanctuary of Zeus in Nemea (Greece) in 1979. Remains of a wooden hilt and an iron sheet scabbard with a gold inlay are preserved on it. The typology and technical characteristics of the sword correspond to those of La Tene swords from Central Europe, mainly with those of the early 3rd century BC. The scabbard is decorated with what resembles a crudely drawn pair of dolphins facing one another. It was very likely superficially inspired by the motif of dragons facing one another common on La Tene swords, albeit with no stylistic (and probably also ideological) link between them. The sword was deposited in the well sometime before the abandonment of the sanctuary in 270 BC and it is therefore very likely that it had already been in use in Greece before the Celtic invasion of 279 BC. Some peculiarities of the weapon and its find context make us believe that the sword was not brought to Greece from Central Europe but created and used in the Mediterranean by the locals, who were apparently already familiar with Celtic swords in the early 3rd century BC. The sword thus bears another testimony to quite close contacts between the La Tene and Mediterrranean worlds in the periods predating the major clashes documented by written sources.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology

Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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