Grave field of Frög
The burial of Frög is a hall instead temporal burial in a former loop of Drau at Frög ( Rosegg , Carinthia ) and comprises about 600 grave hill . The burial ground was used from around 800 to 600 BC. Occupied. The burials are cremations . In the hills there are different forms of stone setting and stone chambers, as well as wooden fixtures. There are also shallow graves.
description
In the oldest horizon, which dates back to the 8th century BC BC, needles can be found with a conical head. This creates a connection to the burial grounds in Krain und Kleinklein . A bridle of the Caucasian-Northern Pontic style and a battle ax were found in a grave. Some clay pots also have connections to the lower Danube region.
A richly decorated grave (Tumulus 70) is dated to the earlier Hallstatt period. A bracelet in the cinder urn could be a reference to a co-buried woman. The rest of the furnishings indicate a warrior: an iron spout ax with gold inlaid , a long lance tip and a bronze bridle in Eastern style. Women's graves are often marked by bronze spindles, male graves usually with one or two different axes, as well as with one, in younger graves two lances. Some particularly splendid graves are referred to as those of "clan chiefs".
Several bronze vessels were found in the burial ground, for example an Italian tripod with a bronze bowl. The most important and characteristic of Frög's finds are the lead figures that were found in both men's and women's graves. They are likely to go back to Italian ( Venetian ) and Illyrian influence. They were created in a shell casting and then glued onto clay vessels. Most are in the half profile, others that have been attached to the edge of the vessel are in the full profile. There are equestrian figures, horse stallions with a clear gender and birds. Among the fully plastic figures are human figures with penis and breasts. The most important find is the approximately 20 cm model of a float, the lead wagon from Frög .
The lead for the figures does not come from the lead deposits closest to the Frög, but should come from Bleiberg , even if no traces of mining from the Hallstatt period are known.
supporting documents
- Otto H. Urban: The long way to history. The prehistory of Austria. (= Austrian history up to 15th BC). Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2003, pp. 249-251, ISBN 3-8000-3969-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Neuninger: Spectral analytical investigations into the origin of the Fröger lead . Carinthia I, Volume 175, 1995, pp. 21-40.
further reading
- G. Tomedi: The Hallstatt cemetery of Frög . Archaeolingua 14, Budapest 2004.