A new type of animal style jewellery from the Klecany I burial ground and the so-called Prague “silver workshop”

0568402 - ARÚ 2023 RIV DE eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Profantová, Naďa
A new type of animal style jewellery from the Klecany I burial ground and the so-called Prague “silver workshop”.
Frühmittelalterliches Hacksilber im nördlichen westslawischen Raum. Archäologie und Archäometallurgie. Beiträge der internationalen Konferenz im Kulturhistorischen Museum Görlitz, 18./19. Oktober 2019. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 2022 - (Biermann, F.; Kieseler, A.; Pernicka, E.; Richthofen, J.), s. 263-279. Studien zur Archäologie Europas, 36. ISBN 978-3-7749-4315-5.
[Hacksilberschätze im frühmittelalterlichen nordwestslawischen Raum - Archäologie und Isotopenanalyse. Görlitz (DE), 18.10.2019-19.10.2019]
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA18-00477S
Institutional support: RVO:67985912
Keywords : Early Middle Ages * silver * jewellery * Bohemia * Prague
OECD category: Archaeology

By the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th centuries the jewellery from the earlier recognized, so-called “Prague jewellery workshop” were strongly influenced by the Moravian tradition. We could distinguish new types and variants of the luxurious jewellery: new motifs of metal “gombiky”, new technological ways and a new “animal style” of earrings and kaptorgas, new construction types of kaptorgas, a new type of silver pendants worn in a pair. The analyses of the rich equipment of a woman from grave 8/17 from Klecany I shows a close connection of earrings with the motif of three sculptural riders to those with the same motif from Prague-Střešovice and Hořejany - they were all made by the same jeweler. This workshop could be localized in the suburbs of Prague Castle (Malá Strana) and provides evidence of silver production as early as in the first half of the 10th century, as opposed to mere remelting and further silversmithing.
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