Avanton gold cone

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Avanton gold cone

The sheet gold cone of Avanton ( French Cône d'Avanton , also Cône d'Or d'Avanton) is a Bronze Age artefact made of thin sheet gold . It belongs to a group of four known, cone-shaped gold hats from the Bronze Age, which were found in different states of preservation in southern Germany ( Berlin gold hat , golden hat from Schifferstadt , sheet gold cone from Ezelsdorf-Buch ) and France in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries were.

description

The sheet gold cone was excavated in 1844 during field work near the village of Avanton, about 12 km north of Poitiers . The Celtic tribe of the Pictons had their settlement area here. The object was damaged; a comparison with other finds suggests that part (the edge) is missing. The top of the gold hat is 55 cm long and weighs 285 g. The dome with brim was either lost when it was found or the object was buried fragmented. In terms of shape and ornamentation, it resembles the sheet gold cone from Ezelsdorf-Buch, which also has a star pattern formed from triangles at the top.

The sheet gold cone served as the outer decorative covering of a long-shafted headgear with a brim, which was probably made of organic material and stabilized the thin sheet of gold on the outside. Today it is assumed that the gold hats served as religious insignia of gods or priests of a sun cult widespread in Central Europe in the late Bronze Age . This view is underpinned by the pictorial representation of an object interpreted as a cone hat on a stone slab from the grave of Kivik in Skåne , southern Sweden , in a clearly religious and cultic context.

Whereabouts

The Cône d'Avanton is located in the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale in the castle of Saint-Germain-en-Laye , near Paris .

See also

  • Nebra Sky Disc , around 2100 to 1700 BC BC, the world's oldest concrete representation of the sky found so far

literature

  • Anja Grebe (Red.): Gold and the cult of the Bronze Age. Verlag des Germanisches Nationalmuseums, Nuremberg 2003, ISBN 3-926982-95-0 (exhibition catalog, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, May 22 - September 7, 2003).
  • R. Joffroy : Le cône d'or d'Avanton. In: Antiquités Nationales. Bulletin. No. 10, 1978, ISSN  0997-0576 , pp. 33-35.
  • Wilfried Menghin : The Berlin gold hat and the golden calendars of the old European bronze age. In: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica. Vol. 32, 2000, ISSN  0341-1184 , pp. 31-108.
  • Peter Schauer : The gold sheet cones of the Bronze Age. A contribution to the cultural connection between Orient and Central Europe (= Roman-Germanic Central Museum. Monographs. Vol. 8). Habelt, Bonn 1986, ISBN 3-7749-2238-1 .
  • Mark Schmidt: Of hats, cones and calendars or the dazzling light of the Orient. In: Ethnographic-Archaeological Journal. Vol. 43, 2002, ISSN  0012-7477 , pp. 499-541.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aurélie Corolleur: Monuments. In: Avanton.fr. Retrieved April 29, 2020 (French).