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Die awarisch-italischen Beziehungen aus goldschmiedetechnischer Sicht: Ein Vorbericht

Bühler, Birgit (2019) Die awarisch-italischen Beziehungen aus goldschmiedetechnischer Sicht: Ein Vorbericht. ACTA ARCHAEOLOGICA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 70 (1). pp. 203-213. ISSN 0001-5210 (print); 1588-2551 (online)

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Abstract

The technological choices made in the production process of a particular object can provide valuable clues regarding the identity and background of the goldsmith who made it. For example, true repoussé (“Treibziseliertechnik”) was an uncommon technique throughout the entire Avar Period, although it occurs on a number of high-quality items of metalwork, which may be associated – for typological, stylistic and/or technological reasons – with “Byzantine” culture. Although the importance of connections between “Byzantine” and “Avar” culture is already well known, the mechanisms of cultural and technological transfer, as well as the regions where such transfer took place, are not yet clear. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate, with the help of two case studies, how a combination of technological criteria with an innovative, detailed typology of plant ornament may contribute to resolving these questions. The results of this preliminary study suggest that “Italo-Byzantine” workshop traditions may have played an important role in this context.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: MTA KFB támogatási szerződés alapján archiválva
Uncontrolled Keywords: Avar archaeology, early medieval metalworking techniques, early medieval plant-ornament, Nagyszentmiklós treasure
Subjects: C Auxiliary Sciences of History / történeti segédtudományok > CC Archaeology / régészet
Depositing User: xVioletta xBaliga
Date Deposited: 10 Oct 2019 09:47
Last Modified: 12 Sep 2023 14:16
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/102171

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