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Ceramic pedestal dish and a bird-shaped drinking horn from Gr. 54

Ceramic pedestal dish and a bird-shaped drinking horn from Gr. 54
Item name:Ceramic pedestal dish and a bird-shaped drinking horn from Gr. 54
Dating:9th century BC
Material:Clay
Findspot:Ljubljana – Dvorišče SAZU
On display:The Earliest Stories from the Crossroads

Description

Goods placed in Grave 54 of the urn cemetery at the Dvorišče SAZU site in Ljubljana (9th century BC). The iron torques herald a new period, the Iron Age. As all other goods in the grave, the torques were burnt on the pyre and are therefore poorly preserved. The bronze bow brooch was a novelty in the Late Bronze Age that became very fashionable in its later, Early Iron Age variants. The grave also held bronze bracelets, a glass pearl, a ceramic pedestal dish and a birdshaped drinking horn.

1. Pedestal dish, clay, h. 8.8 cm, Inv. No. P 9591.
2. Askos, clay, h. 14.3 cm, Inv. No. P 9593.

Further reading

Turk, Peter and Turk, Matija, 2019: The Earliest Stories from the Crossroads, Ljubljana, Fig. 266, pp. 215, 250.

On display in the Permanent Exhibition