Przedstawienia jeźdźców i wojowników na urnach kultury pomorskiej jako świadectwo igrzysk pogrzebowych – próba interpretacji wybranych scen narracyjnych

• Authors: Wojtecki Jakub

Title variants

EN

Representations of riders and warriors on urns of the Pomeranian culture as an evidence of funeral games – an attempt of interpretation of selected narrative scenes

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Amongst urns associated with the Pomorska culture there is a small number of those with representations of carts, mounted steeds, horses and footsoldiers. Those atypical representations made on items of huge eschatological significance seem to play an important role in their makers’ religious system. Some of narrative scenes shown on them suggest, that they are images of funeral games – horse, cart or foot races and fight competitions, which we know from historical and literary sources describing various Indo-European societies. It shows, that similar rituals were propably performed by people of the Pomorska culture. By putting their images on urns used in funeral, their makers, people with mythical perception of reality implemented their effects without performing them in physical way.

Keywords

PL

kultura pomorska; obrządek pogrzebowy; pogrzeb; igrzyska pogrzebowe; wyścigi koni; wyścigi wozów

EN

Pomeranian culture; burial rite; funeral; funeral games; horse racing; cart racing

• Publisher: Muzeum Archeologiczne w Gdańsku
• Journal: Pomorania Antiqua
• Year: 2020
• Volume: Tom XXIX
• Pages: s. 25-38

Contributors

author

Wojtecki Jakub

• Szkoła doktorska Academia Artium Humaniorum, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, ul. Błękitna 18a, 87-100 Toruń