Prachtfingerringe im frühmittelalterlichen Mähren (9.–10. Jahrhundert): Bemerkungen zur Chronologie und Provenienz des großmährischen Luxusschmucks

Title:

Prachtfingerringe im frühmittelalterlichen Mähren (9.–10. Jahrhundert): Bemerkungen zur Chronologie und Provenienz des großmährischen Luxusschmucks
Honosné prsteny v raně středověké Morvy (9.-10. století): Poznámky k chronologii a původu luxusního velkomoravského šperku
Ostentatious finger-rings from Early Medieval Moravia (9th-10th century): Remarks on chronology and origin of the Great Moravian luxurious jewellery

Creator:

Ungerman, Šimon

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:f6818789-3609-4baf-aac2-84d5307d3f53
uuid:f6818789-3609-4baf-aac2-84d5307d3f53

Subject:

jewellery, Early Middle Ages, Great Moravia, Balkan, and Mediterranean

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

This article deals with 29 Early Medieval finger-rings found, mostly in cemeteries, in Moravia (Czech Republic). They are made of gold, silver, gilded silver or gilded bronze. Each finger-ring consists of two parts – hoop and bezel – made of sheet metal and soldered together, and decorated with granulation, filigree, inlays of glass or semi-precious stones; only two finger-rings are cast as one piece. The finger-rings are classified into 8 types (A to H), some with subtypes. The author outlines the current state of chronology of Early Medieval jewellery in Moravia and discusses the dating of finger-rings: most of the precisely-datable pieces fall into the older period of the Great Moravian Empire, i.e. the first half of the 9th century. The main concern of the study is the question of the origin of Moravian finger-rings. The author sketches the current state of research of Early Medieval finger-rings in Central and South-eastern Europe (ca. 6th–12th century) and searches for parallels in the Moravian types. In Moravian material, he tries to identify structural and decorative elements that could distinguish imported pieces, their imitations and local products. However, in large measure the sorting of Moravian finger-rings into these three groups remains hypothetical. On the whole, it is evident that the finger-rings found in Moravian cemeteries are based on Mediterranean models. Probably the first specimens (or their immediate producers) came to Moravia in the 8th century, from Byzantine cities on the Adriatic coast, and local production of similar finger-rings in Moravian workshops followed soon afterwards.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

Přehled výzkumů | 2017 Volume:58 | Number:2

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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