Depot I of Prague-Bubeneč

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Parts of the depot in the Prague City Museum
Eye neck rings in the Prague City Museum

The depot I of Prague-Bubeneč (also Hortfund I of Prague-Bubeneč ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Bubeneč , a historic district of Prague , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. The objects still preserved in the depot are now divided between the National Museum and the Prague City Museum .

Find history

The depot was discovered on July 21, 1906 while a narrow-gauge railway was being built . It lay in black earth mixed with ceramic shards and animal bones. The site is south of the Vltava on the edge of a terrace. Originally a floodplain ran here .

It is one of numerous depot finds from the urban area of ​​Prague. There are two other deposits from Bubeneč alone, which date back to the late Bronze Age, as well as a single find of a ring bar from the Aunjetitz culture.

composition

The depot was deposited in a ceramic bowl. This contained numerous bronze objects : seven arm spirals, 14 eyelet neck rings and fragments of two more, four solid oval rings, two pearls, one solid, open bar ring, an arm or temple ring, fragments of two rings (earrings?) Made of wire and three unspecified rings Objects (a stick and two tokens).

The bowl has an S-shaped profile. There are three double tenons and a handle attached to the neck and shoulder fold. The arm spirals are made of ribbons with a lens-shaped cross-section. The eyelet neck rings can be divided into three groups. The oval rings have tapered, grooved ends. The pearls are barrel-shaped. The bar ring has paw ends. One end was broken off in prehistoric times and was reworked. The arm or temple ring is made of wire and is badly corroded.

In the National Museum there are three arm spirals, three eyelet neck rings, two oval rings, two pearls and the remains of the arm or temple ring. In the city museum there is the bowl, four arm spirals, eleven eyelet neck rings and two fragments, two oval rings, the bar ring, the chopsticks and the plates. The (ear) rings that were originally also in the city museum have been lost.

literature

  • Martin Bartelheim : Studies on the Bohemian Aunjetitzer culture. Chronological and chorological investigations (= university research on prehistoric archeology. Vol. 46). Habelt, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-7749-2867-3 (at the same time: Berlin, Freie Universität, dissertation, 1998), pp. 263–264.
  • Václav Moucha : Hromadné nálezy ze starsí doby bronzové na území Prahy. Hoard finds from the older Bronze Age on the territory of Prague. In: Archeologica Pragensia. Volume 15, 2000, pp. 7-13.
  • Václav Moucha: Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , pp. 140-143 ( online ).
  • Tilmann Vachta : Bronze Age hoards and their sites in Bohemia (= Berlin studies of the ancient world. Volume 33). Edition Topoi, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9816751-2-2 , p. 235 ( online ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 31.2 ″  N , 14 ° 24 ′ 6.3 ″  E