Two-handled vessel and bowl with a hole, both containing the cremated remains of a deceased individual, as well as a bronze spectacle brooch from Dobova. Together with the nearby cemeteries at
Obrežje and Žadovinek in the Posavje region, as well as the graves
at Velika Gorica across the state border in Croatia, the urn cemetery
at Dobova forms a special group marked, among other features,
by a specific form of urns and bowls with holes in their sides. Their
significance is unclear. Like other urn cemeteries of the Late Bronze
Age, the graves of women at Dobova contained more numerous
goods in comparison with their male counterparts. In addition to
brooches, they revealed spiral temple rings, bracelets and torques.
1. Urn, clay, h. 18 cm, Gr. A, Inv. No. P 8159.
2. Urn (bowl with a hole), clay, h. 8.4 cm, Gr. 166, Inv. No. P 19038.
3. Spectacle brooch, bronze, l. 7.5 cm, from a destroyed grave, Inv.
No. P 8158.
Turk, Peter and Turk, Matija, 2019: The Earliest Stories
from the Crossroads, Ljubljana, Fig. 261, pp. 210–211, 250.