Disc brooch from Peigen

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Disc brooch from Peigen, obverse

The disc brooch from Peigen is an archaeological find from Pilsting-Peigen in the Lower Bavarian district of Dingolfing-Landau . It is a disc brooch from the 2nd half of the 6th century AD, into which rune signs of the older rune series, also called "older Futhark ", are incised on the back . In addition to the runes, there are also non-runic characters.

Find description

The disc brooch from Peigen was found in 1986 in a row graveyard in the grave of an approximately 35-year-old woman. Of the original approximately 500 graves that were dug from the end of the 5th to the middle of the 7th century AD, around half were destroyed by gravel mining, which dates back at least to around 1900, and by later earthworks. The rune fibula comes from grave number 44 of the 262 graves that have been recorded and documented. Since the woman had numerous precious pearls and two gold pendants as grave goods in addition to the silver brooch, she seems to have been very wealthy and belonged to the upper class.

The disc fibula is made of silver , has a diameter of 3 cm and weighs 10.1 g. The fibula, which is surrounded on the outside with a pearl wire, is decorated with rectangular and trapezoidal almandine plates, underneath which is corrugated sheet metal.

Description of the runic inscription

On the back of the fibula eight characters - runes and extra-runic characters - are carved in an arc on the round edge of the fibula. The individual characters have a height of about 4 mm and a width of about 3 mm. A linguistic meaning cannot be deduced from the inscription.

Disc brooch from Peigen - tracing of the inscription in a publication by Klaus Düwel

Read from left to right eight characters can be recognized: two Hagalaz runes (h); a kenaz- like character (k, upstroke from bottom left to top right touches the bar in the middle, further assignment in this left-hand form otherwise unknown); an unknown symbol in the form of a sickle (otherwise not documented, however, as in the above drawing, Düwel sees multi-arched s-rune together with a scratch at the end of the sickle); a dagaz (d); a kind of capital Latin M, with the last staff of the dagaz superimposed with the upstroke of the M as in tie runes; an Isa (i) and another Hagalaz (with a scratch next to it).

Tineke Looijenga alone reads eh – udo fh h.

Dating

Annette Siegmüller from the rune project in Kiel gives the period from 510 to 610 AD. Klaus Düwel and Tineke Looijenga date the incision on the disc fibula to the 2nd half of the 6th century.

Lost property

The Peigen Disc Brooch was still kept in the Archaeological State Collection in Munich in 2008 . The find is now in the Lower Bavarian Archaeological Museum in Landau an der Isar .

literature

  • Klaus Düwel: Runenkunde (= Metzler Collection. Volume 72). 4th edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 2008.
  • Uta von Freeden, Doris Lehmann: The early medieval burial ground of Peigen / Gem. Pilsting, district of Dingolfing-Landau. Findings and finds as well as anthropology and paleopathology. (= Series of publications by the Lower Bavarian Archaeological Museum in Landau. Volume 2). Landau ad Isar 2005.
  • Martin Hannes Graf: Para-written characters in south Germanic runic inscriptions. Studies on the written culture of the continental Germanic runic horizon. (= Media change - media change - media knowledge. Volume 12). Chronos, Zurich 2010.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Uta von Freeden / Doris Lehmann: The early medieval burial ground of Peigen / Gem. Pilsting, district of Dingolfing-Landau. Findings and finds as well as anthropology and paleopathology. (= Series of publications by the Lower Bavarian Archaeological Museum in Landau. Volume 2). Landau ad Isar 2005, p. 258.
  2. ↑ Uta von Freeden / Doris Lehmann: The early medieval burial ground of Peigen / Gem. Pilsting, district of Dingolfing-Landau. Findings and finds as well as anthropology and paleopathology. (= Series of publications by the Lower Bavarian Archaeological Museum in Landau. Volume 2). Landau ad Isar 2005, p. 96.
  3. ↑ Annette Siegmüller (Rune Project Kiel): Scheibenfibel of Peigen (Bavaria, D) . Kiel 2008 (see web links).
  4. ↑ Uta von Freeden / Doris Lehmann: The early medieval burial ground of Peigen / Gem. Pilsting, district of Dingolfing-Landau. Findings and finds as well as anthropology and paleopathology. (= Series of publications by the Lower Bavarian Archaeological Museum in Landau. Volume 2). Landau ad Isar 2005, p. 96
  5. ↑ Annette Siegmüller (Rune Project Kiel): Scheibenfibel of Peigen (Bavaria, D) . Kiel 2008 (see web links)
  6. ↑ Klaus Düwel: New find 1986. Almandine disc primer from Peigen. In: Nytt om runer. Meldingsblad om runeforskning. No. 2. Oslo 1987, p. 12
  7. ↑ Martin Hannes Graf: Para-written characters in South Germanic runic inscriptions. Studies on the written culture of the continental Germanic runic horizon. (= Media change - media change - media knowledge. Volume 12). Chronos, Zurich 2010
  8. ^ Tineke Looijenga: Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions. Leiden 2003, p. 267.
  9. ↑ Annette Siegmüller (Rune Project Kiel): Scheibenfibel of Peigen (Bavaria, D) . Kiel 2008 (see web links).
  10. ^ Klaus Düwel: Runenkunde (= Metzler Collection. Volume 72). 4th edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 2008, p. 67. - Tineke Looijenga: Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions. Leiden 2003, p. 267 (see web links).