Metal garment elements from the Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age cemetery at Beshtasheni (eastern Georgia)

• Authors: Hamburg, Jacek , Pawłowska, Katarzyna

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents metal elements of garments and jewellery dating to the Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age period (13th–6th century BC) coming from the excavation of the Beshtasheni cemetery in eastern Georgia carried out from the mid-1930s until 2014. A brief historical and cultural background, including a short description and chronology of the Beshtasheni cemetery, is given before presenting the assemblage of metal garment elements found in the graves: pins, belts and buckles, finger rings, bracelets, parts of buckles and beads, including a preliminary typology of some of these artifacts. The typology takes into account the decoration and shape, as well as ornamental elements and motifs. The paper goes on to describe the observed relation between metal garment elements and the gender and age of the deceased.

Keywords

EN

Beshtasheni; bronze; Early Iron Age; Georgia; Late Bronze Age; metal artifacts; dress elements

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 26(1)
• Pages: 601-618

Dates

published

2018-07-09

Contributors

author

Hamburg, Jacek

author

Pawłowska, Katarzyna

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0012.1814