The article, published in Celtic Art in Europe (Oxford/Philadelphia) presents the most important find of Celtic weaponry on the territory of Eastern Adriatic – a Celtic sword, discovered in the river bed of river Cetina near Trilj in Croatia. Based on the formal analysis of the scabbard was proposed a supplementation of the typological classification of early La Tène swords with open chape-ends of Kosd type. Based on analysis of decoration (dragon pairs and triskeles) was formulated a proposition if the stylistic development of triskeles in Plastic Style of Celtic art. With their stylistic characteristics it demonstrates a link between workshops of northern Italy and the Carpathian basin. Stylistic analysis of the sword demonstrated that it was most probably manufactured in workshops on the territory of Northern Italy, used as a weapon of Celtic mercenaries of tyrant Dionysus the Elder from Syracuse which with his fleet controlled the territory of western Aegean and eastern Adriatic, to be finally ritually offered in an indigenous sanctuary on the territory of Dalmatia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537074116
In the article, published in Celtic Art in Europe, Mitja Guštin presents three ornamental items, plates made from gold, silver and bronze located in the private Burgmuseum in Deutschlandsberg in Austrian Styria. Their sour ces are not known, but the author tries to reconstruct their origins and their production. Based on stylistic characteristics he links them to Late Iron Age toreutics and demonstrates that despite several stylistic traits, they most probably do not come from Celtic, but most probably Thracian or workshops around the black sea which produced for Celtic clients in Central Europe.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537073860
The author presents in her article an important historical event and its legal consequences – the campaign of C. Cassius Longinus towards Macedonia in 171 BC. Although not succeeding, he on the way home defeated several peoples which were in alliance with the king Cincibilius. The article presents the reaction of the Roman Senate which in excuse sent to the ruler, who had perhaps his capital on the territory of today's Celje, a diplomatic mission with rich gifts and privileges. She demonstrates that this mission also conducted the alliance which was valid some 60 years later when the Roman army helped to the threatened Celts on the territory of today’s Slovenia. The article presents the efforts of the Roman Senate to sustain in the 2nd century BC proper contacts with Celtic communities of the territory of today's Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 37518893