“Looted Warriors” from Eastern Europe
“Looted Warriors” from Eastern Europe
Author(s): János Gábor TARBAYSubject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
Keywords: Late Bronze Age; Early Iron Age; sword; situlae; Hajdúböszörmény
Summary/Abstract: The study discusses and calls attention to assemblages that are recent victims of illicit metal detectoring inEastern Europe. The first one is a Ha B1 sword hoard, allegedly from Mátészalka (Hungary, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County). The assemblage was looted in 2017. In less than a year, two of the finds have entered theBritish antiquities market and they were sold under fake provenance. The second find could have been a latePeriod V (Ha B3) elite burial. The looted assemblage has appeared on the domongol.org metal detectorist blog,and it is allegedly originating from “Ternopil Oblast” (Ukraine). It contains a bell helmet with solar bargedecoration and a fragment of a unique Hajdúböszörmény-type situla, the parallels of which relate this findto the Rivoli (Italy) burial and the metallurgical sphere of the Eary Iron Age.
Journal: Dissertationes Archaeologicae Ser. 3.
- Issue Year: 6/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 313-359
- Page Count: 47
- Language: English
