Grand tomb Grafenbühl

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Sphinx from Grafenbühl with an amber face attached
Inlays and inlays on the death bed

The Grafenbühl is a splendid grave from the late Hallstatt period near Asperg , district of Ludwigsburg in Northern Württemberg , archaeologically excavated by the prehistorian Hartwig Zürn . It belongs to a number of rich barrows in the vicinity of the Hohenasperg (so-called prince grave of Hochdorf an der Enz and Kleinaspergle ) and is dated to 500 BCE.

description

The burial mound may originally have had a diameter of around 40 meters. The central grave was 0.7 m above the original ground level, and numerous other side graves were also found. Undecorated bronze neck and arm rings, fibulae, glass and amber beads have been found here. In the south-western corner of the central grave was the completely destroyed skeleton of a man around 30 years old. The chamber floor of the 4.5 × 4.5 m wooden chamber lay on three beams. The ceiling was supported by a central pillar. The chamber was about three feet high. Hardwood and conifers were used for construction.

Specialty

Even the sparse remains of the burial chamber, which was plundered in antiquity, show that the hill once housed one of the most magnificent early Celtic graves in southern Germany, even more precious than the Hochdorfer grave. Fragments of Mediterranean furniture - inlays and inlays made of ivory, amber and bone - rich, partly imported drinking sets, the remains of a four-wheeled iron-sheathed cart and gold-decorated brooches and belt buckles testify to the wealth of the buried.

The most important pieces include two small sphinxes made of stag horn and ivory with amber faces, dating from 600 BC. In Taranto - at that time the only colony of Sparta, the center of Magna Graecia - were made and once adorned a box or a piece of furniture.

Finds from the magnificent grave are exhibited in the Celtic collection of the Württemberg State Museum.

literature

  • Jutta Fischer : About a Greek Kline and other southern imports from the Grafenbühl prince's grave. Asperg, district of Ludwigsburg . In: Germania , Volume 68, 1990, 115-127.
  • Thomas Hoppe and Katrin Ludwig: True treasures of the Celts. State graves and centers of power from the 7th to 5th centuries BC in Württemberg . (= True Treasures, Volume 2) Stuttgart 2016.
  • Keltenfreunde Asperg, Gertrud Bolay, Armin Krüger, Friedrich O. Müller, Herbert Paul (Ed.): Kelten am Hohenasperg. Asperg 2010.
  • Hartwig Zürn : Hallstatt research in Northern Württemberg. The grave mounds of Asperg (Kr. Ludwigsburg), Hirschlanden (Kr. Leonberg) and Mühlacker (Kr. Vaihingen). Publications of the State Office for Monument Preservation Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Hoppe and Katrin Ludwig: True treasures of the Celts. State graves and centers of power from the 7th to 5th centuries BC in Württemberg . Stuttgart 2016.
  2. ↑ The Celtic grand tombs "Kleinaspergle" and "Grafenbühl". asperg.de, accessed on November 23, 2015 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 21.2 "  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 18.7"  E