Tatinger jug

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Tatinger jug is the modern name for a form of early medieval vessel that is dated to the late 8th and early 9th centuries AD.

The Tatinger jugs are black clay vessels with a characteristic decoration made from applied tin foil . The name is derived from the Tating site in North Friesland . Vessels of this type are widespread from Scandinavia to the Rhineland and the Main area, places of manufacture or regions of origin are currently unknown. In settlements there are mostly only broken pieces, a few intact pieces come as additions from Scandinavian graves.

literature

  • Ludwig Wamser : About a Tatinger jug ​​and selected small finds from Karlburg am Main. Notes on trade and traffic, viticulture and missionary work in the northeast of the Carolingian Empire. In: Dedicatio. Hermann Dannheimer's 70th birthday (= catalogs of the Prehistoric State Collection. Supplement 5). Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz (Opf.) 1999, pp. 206-242.
  • Dieter Hupka: Early medieval splendid jugs. In: Marcus Trier , Friederike Naumann-Steckner (ed.): ZeitTunnel. Catalog Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86832-141-8 , pp. 112-113.