Basse Yutz jugs

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The jugs from Basse Yutz
Detail of the lid

The jugs by Basse Yutz are Celtic ceremonial drinking vessels from the Iron Age from the 5th century BC. They were excavated in the 1920s under poorly documented circumstances and then sold to the British Museum in London.

Find

The two vessels and two bronze stamnoi were found during road construction in Basse Yutz on the Moselle in eastern France in 1927 and probably come from the grave of a Celtic dignitary. Within 2 years of their discovery, they were sold to the British Museum for the sizable sum of £ 5,000.

description

The pair of almost identical jugs mimics the shape of contemporary Etruscan vessels. They are made of a copper alloy sheet driven . The cast base is decorated with 120 red coral fragments and glass and then attached to the sheet metal jacket with a resin. The cast snout and the lid are fastened with pins in a cavity in the copper sheet. X-ray examinations showed that the resin and pins were the only joining methods used, but there are also solder scraps from repairs from the 20th century.

The handle has the shape of a dog and a human face at the bottom and shows the Greek or Etruscan influence. The sink with a duck is exclusively of Celtic origin. The eyes of the dog and duck were created by the same craftsman using a complex drill. The vessels are each around 40 cm high.

The jugs are among the highlights of Celtic art from the Latène period . They show the trade relations of the Celts with distant peoples: The basic idea of ​​the beaked jug comes from Italy, palm leaf-like decorations are an indication of a cultural connection with Egypt and the tin in the copper alloy probably comes from Cornwall in England. In many ways they are similar to the Kanne from Dürrnberg in Austria .

literature

  • JV S Megaw, M. Ruth Megaw: The Basse-Yutz find. Masterpieces of Celtic art - the 1927 discovery in the British Museum . Society of Antiquaries of London, Distributed by Thames and Hudson, London 1990, ISBN 0-85431-254-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Neil MacGregor: Basse Yutz Flagons . BBC. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c d e British Museum Collection
  3. ↑ Catherine Johns: Dogs. History, myth, art . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2008, ISBN 978-0-674-03093-0 , pp. 98 ( books.google.de - no page access).
  4. ↑ Basse Yutz flagons . British Museum. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 20, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.britishmuseum.org
  5. ^ A b c Neil MacGregor: A History of the World in 100 Objects . Allen Lane, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-84614-413-4 .
  6. ↑ Julia Tum, Andrew Middleton: Radiography of Cultural Material . Routledge, 2006, ISBN 1-136-36993-7 , pp. 3-18 ( books.google.de ).
  7. ↑ John T. Koch: Basse Yutz . In: Celtic culture. A historical encyclopedia . tape 1 : A-Celti . ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Calif. 2006, ISBN 1-85109-440-7 , pp. 184–186 (English, books.google.de - excerpt).
  8. ^ Paul Craddock (Ed.): Scientific Investigation of Copies, Fakes and Forgeries . Elsevier, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford / Burlington, Ma 2009, ISBN 978-1-136-43601-7 , pp. contents ( books.google.de ).