Treasure of gold from Profen
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ N , 12 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E
| Treasure of gold from Profen | ||
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| location | Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | |
| Location | Profen opencast mine | |
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| When | Beginning of the Roman Empire , mid-1st century AD. |
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| Where | Profen , Burgenlandkreis / Saxony-Anhalt | |
| displayed | Permanent exhibition, State Museum of Prehistory, Halle , section The Invention of the Teutons |
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The gold treasure of Profen is a particularly rich and exclusive grave gift of gold with a total weight of 430 grams, in a woman's grave the Quadi elite from the early Roman Empire during the excavations in Profen , Burgenlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt , discovered in mining and in the Years from 2006 to 2007 by the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt through block salvage and examined.
The women's grave with the quadratic gold treasure dates back to the middle of the 1st century AD. It is the richest women's grave so far from the early Roman Empire in all of Germania magna .
Find description
Between May 2006 and September 2007 the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology of Saxony-Anhalt examined an urn burial ground several hectares in size in the Profen opencast mining area from the early Roman Empire from 85 BC. BC to 90 AD The urn graves were excavated as block salvages and examined in the restoration workshop of the state office.
From the mass of 560 Elbe Germanic urn graves stands out the very rich burial of a German woman from the middle of the 1st century AD, which contained gold jewelry with a total weight of 430 grams.
In a bronze urn, in addition to other grave goods, there were a pair of golden fibulae as clasps, a pair of bent bracelets, two rings and two foxtail chains with curls , that is, cone-shaped jewelry pendants made using filigree and granulation techniques. The extremely rich grave goods testify to the outstanding position of the dead.
The burial ritual was reconstructed for the first time. The dead received an honorable burial; Richly clothed and adorned and bedded on a bearskin, as remains of the claws still show, and surrounded by Roman silver dishes, their mortal shell was burned in the fire of a pyre.
Scanning electron microscopy , micro-X-ray fluorescence analysis and computed tomographic examinations were used for the analysis . Based on the degree of cremation , the melting pearls and the metal parts of the costume, a burial sequence could be determined from the cremation to the introduction of the urn into the ground. In addition, the finds allow the local region to be safely synchronized with the Roman Empire .
exhibition
The outstanding finds of the quadratic elite grave have been part of the permanent exhibition of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle since February 20, 2015 .
Remarks
- ↑ a b Profen's gold treasure - excavation and research project of the Foundation for the Promotion of Archeology in Saxony-Anhalt.
literature
- Harald Meller (Ed.): Glutgeboren. Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (= booklets accompanying the permanent exhibition in the Landesmuseum Halle . Volume 5). Halle an der Saale 2015, ISBN 978-3-944507-14-9 .
- Harald Meller, Ralf Schwarz: The "Princess of Profen". In the distance, a quadratic king's daughter seals the Germanic alliance policy. in: Matthias Wemhoff , Michael Rind (Hrsg.): Moving Times - Archeology in Germany. , Petersberg, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7319-0723-7 (exhibition catalog), pp. 114–115