Amber pusher
Amber sliders are rounded, flat-ground, oblong plates made of amber at the corners . They were often pierced in parallel in order to separate the strands of pearl pendants as intermediate pieces .
There are sometimes jewelry bores between the holes for the cords. Amber slide come z. B. with Gagatgehänge before. They spread from the Wessex culture in England (around 1500 BC) via Alsace , southern Germany , Bohemia and Greece to Crete . Find places are u. a. the hoard from the AUDI site in Ingolstadt and the shaft grave A from Mycenae on the Peloponnese .
literature
- Emil Hoffmann: Lexicon of the Stone Age. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-42125-3 , p. 48