SPECIAL FEATURES FROM CSEPEL ISLAND. RELIQUIAE OF THE CELTIC RED DEER CULT AT THE VICINITY OF BUDAPEST

• Authors: Horváth M. Attila , Hanny Erzsebet
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

During the excavations prior to the building of the M0 motorway in Hungary between 1988 and 1989 remains of various cultures who were unearthed on the almost 2,500 m2 site of Szigetszentmiklós-Üdülősor, among others a late Celtic rural settlement. Further excavations in 2008 and 2010 revealed additional parts of the settlement. From one of the features came an enormous deer antler with some ceramic fragments. This feature was largely similar to the one excavated in 1989, also containing an antler. Both were found on the area of the waterside settlement. For sure these findings can be connected to the Celtic cultural cycle, in which the red deer and the roe were regarded as sacred. Although the original Celtic names are unknown and they are not recorded until the late Celtic era, based on the Graeco-Roman inscriptions one can safely assume these findings were offerings to the Celtic deer god.

Keywords

EN

HUNGARY; LA TÈNE PERIOD; SETTLEMENT; RED-DEER ANTLERS; CELTIC

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Institute
• Journal: Slovenská archeológia (Slovak Archaeology)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 69
• Issue: suppl 2
• Pages: 157 – 178

Contributors

author

Horváth M. Attila

• Budapest History Museum, Szent György tér 2, H – 1014 Budapest, Hungary

author

Hanny Erzsebet

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovarch.2021.suppl.2.15