The research material comprises dictionaries of terms related to Catholicism, functioning on Polish websites. The aim of this lexicographical-nature study is the description of dictionary definitions, namely ways of defining meanings that appear in the online dictionaries collected. The author distinguishes 3 types of texts appearing in the section of the headword, in which a definition is traditionally placed: 1) information about what the headword means, tending to be balanced, provided in stylistically neutral vocabulary, sometimes with features of academic style – objective definitions; 2) information about the meaning of a word, supplemented by a humorous or satirical presentation of the designatum – subjective definitions; 3) Texts that replace a proper definition, connected to headwords in different ways – pseudo-definitions (failed definitions or comments). The number of dictionaries published on the Internet proves that the model of a dictionary as a way to share information is considered useful and attractive. The method of composing a definition, however, shows how different objectives are attributed to online dictionaries: not only should they impart knowledge about the language, but first of all describe the world and shape favorable or reluctant attitude of readers to religious issues.
Research material analyzed in the article includes dictionaries devoted to religious contents available on Polish websites, with particular emphasis on publications related to the Roman Catholic faith (80 items). The aim of the Author is to try to present online religious dictionaries, showing their specificity and related problems. Characteristics include issues such as: 1) thematic scope of dictionaries (domination of the Bible teachings, liturgics and vocabulary typical for specific religious environments and communities); 2) original or secondary nature of the text (online dictionary as an electronic adaptation of a printed work or an independent creation); 3) structure and method of functioning of online dictionaries (text or hypertext; insufficient use of technical possibilities, e.g. connecting entries with a network of links); 4) Choice between a dictionary and an encyclopedia (type of information contained in head entries; alphabetical system typical for a dictionary as a convenient form of conveying any content; a need to study types of definitions); 5) Author’s intentions and stylistic tone of a dictionary (lack of objectivity in conveying information; making comments; persuasiveness in defining meanings, polemics, satire or a joke). Online dictionaries, similarly as most contents published on the Internet, cause problems concerning data reliability. It is also not supported by anonymity and a trend for copying, paraphrasing and moving texts, typical for the Internet.
The article aims at finding repetitive content and formal elements visible on the websites of female religious congregations in Poland. These websites are a form of media self-presentation of religious communities, they serve informational purposes and, indirectly, the creation of the image of the congregations. The research covered 93 websites of congregations participating in the Conference of Senior Superiors of Religious Congregations. The author distinguishes 4 aspects of the message that add up to the schemes of self-presentation: 1. basis of identification of the community, 2. areas of self-description, 3. invitation to contact, 4. multimedia. The author indicates a relationship between the presumed collective originator and the undefined recipient of the internet message as a probable cause of the predictable structure of the websites analyzed.
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Celem artykułu jest odszukanie powtarzalnych elementów treściowych i formalnych, widocznych na stronach internetowych żeńskich zgromadzeń zakonnych w Polsce. Strony te są formą medialnej autoprezentacji wspólnot zakonnych, służą informacji, a pośrednio – kreacji wizerunku zgromadzeń. Badaniami objęto 93 strony internetowe zgromadzeń, uczestniczących w Konferencji Wyższych Przełożonych Żeńskich Zgromadzeń Zakonnych. Autorka wyodrębnia 4 aspekty przekazu, składające się na schematy autoprezentacji: 1. podstawy identyfikacji wspólnoty, 2. obszary autocharakterystyki, 3. zaproszenie do kontaktu, 4. multimedialność. Jako prawdopodobną przyczynę przewidywalnej struktury analizowanych stron głównych wskazuje się relację między zakładanym zbiorowym nadawcą a niedookreślonym odbiorcą komunikatu internetowego.
A common feature of the researched publications: Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2005) and YOUCAT. Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church (2011), being a form of popularization of Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992), is a return to the traditional catechism composition based on blocks consisting of questions and answers. The purpose of the article is to analyze the questions used on YOUCAT pages. The analysis covers three aspects: 1. the status of catechism questions, 2. their typology, and 3. selected characteristics, such as the presence of presupposition, diversification of originator-recipient relations, and stylistic heterogeneity. The author draws conclusions regarding the servile, didactic and persuasive function of dialogue forms, qualifies catechism questions as only seeming questions and describes their linguistic specificity, boiling down to the use of several schematic solutions.
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Jednym z założeń, towarzyszących ogłoszonemu w 1992 roku Katechizmowi Kościoła katolickiego, jest powstanie opracowań doktrynalnych przeznaczonych dla zawężonego kręgu odbiorców. Przykładem publikacji o charakterze popularyzatorskim są m.in. Kompendium Katechizmu Kościoła katolickiego (wyd. 2005) oraz YOUCAT. Katechizm Kościoła katolickiego dla młodych (wyd. 2011, wierny przekład z języka niemieckiego). Pozycje te łączy powrót do tradycyjnej kompozycji katechizmowej, opartej na blokach składających się z pytania i odpowiedzi (z formy tej zrezygnowano w Katechizmie Kościoła katolickiego). Przedmiotem artykułu jest analiza pytań, zastosowanych na kartach YOUCAT, obejmująca 3 aspekty: (1) status pytań katechizmowych, (2) ich typologię oraz (3) wybrane cechy charakterystyczne, takie jak obecność presupozycji, zróżnicowanie relacji nadawczo-odbiorczych oraz niejednorodność stylistyczna. Autorka wysuwa wnioski dotyczące służebnej, dydaktycznej i perswazyjnej funkcji form dialogowych, kwalifikuje pytania katechizmowe jako pozorne i opisuje ich językową specyfikę, sprowadzającą się do korzystania z kilku schematycznych rozwiązań.
Among the wooden caskets with metal locks (a characteristic element of the furniture of graves of women in barbaricum) there is a distinguished group of finds with outstanding decoration made of large sheets of bronze covered with rich set of various punched motifs, fixed with vast amount of decorative, dome headed bronze nails. These caskets, similar in style, are known exclusively from the Przeworsk culture area (cemeteries in Opatów, Chmielów Piaskowy, Zamiechów, Kraków-Płaszów, and from the Tisa group cemetery in Badon “Doaşte”, in Romania). Fragments of bronze plates with similar motifs are known from a few other sites. They are dated to phase B2/C1 – C1 and can be treated as a very homogenous group, maybe even works of one craftsmen or workshop. The described ornamented caskets were found in graves with rich, however not outstanding, furniture. They can be treated as an attempt to imitate of wooden boxes with bronze decorative mounts known from the Roman Empire, however the motifs are deeply rooted in the local “barbarian” tradition. The ornamented caskets could have been a sign of special social status. Most interesting and really mysterious are figures on the plates from Kraków Płaszów presenting stylised complete human and animal representations.
An urn grave 93 from cemetery of the Przeworsk culture was furnished with opulent set of arms: a sword, two spearheads and shield fittings, all ritually destroyed according to burial custom of the Przeworsk culture. A shield-boss, of type Jahn 7, has broken spike. Bronze rivets, coated with silver sheet are flattened. Inside the boss were stored small objects, a not rare phenomenon in the Przeworsk culture. A shield grip, of type Jahn 8, has rectangular bronze plates covered with thin layer of silver, with small silver studs, and decorative rosettes. Crests separating rivet plates from a handle are covered with silver sheet, and decorated with filigree plait. A big number of iron U-shaped edge mountings, elaborately destroyed, allows a cautious reconstruction of a shield-form – it should be rectangular/oval. An evidence, that shields of such shape were used in the Przeworsk culture, could be finds of miniature shields (e.g. Siemiechów, grave 46). Some analogies are also outside the Przeworsk culture, e.g. preserved in situ shield from grave 19 in Hunn, Norway. Grave 93 is dated to phase B2 of the Roman Period. All finds have no traces of fire, so they weren’t put on the pyre but were deposited directly in grave pit. A shield was disfigured. Edge mountings were irregularly dispersed in grave pit, some pieces were inside shield boss. They must be torn away from the shield planks. A shield boss was deposited more then 40 cm apart from the grip. The urn were placed in the middle.
In 1938, a collection of artefacts from the village of Łady Nowe (currently Łady), Sochaczew County, was presented to the State Archaeological Museum. It consists of two small earthenware vessels (Fig. 8, 9), an iron brooch (Fig. 1), two iron knives (Fig. 2, 3), an iron spearhead (Fig. 4), a damaged iron shield boss (Fig. 5, 6) and melted bronze sheet fragments, probably from a vessel (Fig. 7). The earliest-dating artefact is the iron brooch of the Middle La Tène construction, resembling Kostrzewski variant B. It is decorated with a round knob and a distinct depression on the foot, which could have been used to affix an additional decorative element – a piece of coral, glass or bone. Its closest analogies are a brooch from a cremation grave at Wilcza Wólka, Piaseczno County (Fig. 10:1) and a fibula from Gradowo, Radziejów County (Fig. 10:2), dated to phase A1. They are most probably imports from the Celtic culture circle; in Poland, they are attributed to the Jastorf Culture. The damaged iron knife with a wide blade and straight back transitioning into a socket (Fig. 2) is an unusual find. A similar tool was found at the Przeworsk Culture cemetery at Zagorzyn, Kalisz County, which is dated to the Late Pre-Roman Period (Fig. 11:4). Such knives are encountered among Celtic tools, although they are not common finds (Fig. 11:3). Their function remains unclear. They may have been a symbol of prestige, used, according to some researchers, to quarter sacrificial animals or cut meat at feasts. Other analogies to the socketed knife come from graves A and 8 (Fig. 11:1) at the Kraghede cemetery in northern Jutland; however, there they were described as a one-edged lance head. It may also have been a specialised tool of currently unknown purpose. The associations of the so-called Kraghede group with the Przeworsk and Jastorf Cultures are confirmed in pottery, and, perhaps, this is another example of these connections. The fragmentarily preserved second knife from Łady Nowe has a wide blade and tang defined on one side (Fig. 3). It is dated to the Late Pre-Roman Period. In the case of the iron spearhead, only the socket and a fragment of the blade have been preserved; the latter is so small that its shape, type and chronology cannot be determined (Fig. 4). The iron shield boss survives only in a fragment of the dome with a narrow, blunt spike, which was inserted into a hole in the dome and hammered flat on the inside (Fig. 5, 6). The lack of the dome, flange and rivets makes it difficult to clearly determine the typology and, in turn, the chronology of this object. Blunt spikes are characteristic of both the shield bosses dated to the Late Pre-Roman Period, identified as Bohnsack type 7, as well as the ones representing Jahn type 7a and dating to the Early Roman Period. In the case of phase-A3 specimens, spikes are usually riveted to the dome. The welding technique, which did not require rivets, is characteristic of specimens from phase B2 of the Early Roman Period; however, it was known and may have been used already in the Late Pre-Roman Period. The archaeological site from Łady Nowe was most probably a cremation cemetery of the Przeworsk Culture, as some of the objects were burnt. It is dated to the Late Pre-Roman Period, possibly also later. Unfortunately, the very interesting finds discussed here cannot be allocated to grave assemblages and must be treated as an artefact collection.
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W 1938 do zbiorów Państwowego Muzeum Archeologicznego przekazano zabytki pochodzące z miejscowości Łady Nowe, pow. sochaczewski. Są to dwa niewielkie naczynia gliniane[ryc. 8; 9], żelazna zapinka [ryc. 1], dwa noże [ryc. 2; 3], grot [ryc. 4], uszkodzone umbo [ryc. 5; 6], oraz kawałki nadtopionej blachy brązowej, zapewne pozostałości naczynia brązowego. [ryc. 7] Najwcześniejszą chronologię ma żelazna zapinka o konstrukcji środkowolateńskiej zbliżona do odmiany B wg J. Kostrzewskiego, zdobiona kulką i głębokim wgłębieniem na nóżce, które mogło służyć do zamocowania dodatkowego elementu zdobniczego – kawałka koralu, szkła albo kości. Najbliższe analogie to zapinka z grobu popielnicowego w Wilczej Wólce, pow. piaseczyński [ryc. 10:1] i fibula z Gradowa, pow. radziejowski [ryc. 10:2]. Są one najprawdopodobniej importami z kręgu cywilizacji celtyckiej. Znaleziska z ziem polskich, datowane na fazę A1, wiązane są często z kulturą jastorfską. Nietypowym znaleziskiem jest uszkodzony, nóż żelazny, o szerokim ostrzu z prostym tylcem przechodzącym w tulejkę. [ryc. 2] Podobne narzędzie znaleziono na datowanym na młodszy okres przedrzymski cmentarzysku kultury przeworskiej w Zagorzynie, pow. kaliski.[ryc. 11:4]. Są spotykane wśród narzędzi celtyckich, choć nie są to znaleziska częste. [ryc. 11:3] Analogie do noża z tulejką pochodzą też z cmentarzyska Kraghede, w północnej Jutlandii. W grobach A i 8 znaleziono podobne przedmioty [ryc. 11:1] Związki tzw. grupy Kraghede z kulturą przeworską i jastorfską są potwierdzone w ceramice, być może jest to kolejny przykład tych nawiązań. Funkcja tych noży pozostaje niejasna. Mogły być symbolem prestiżu służąc, zdaniem niektórych badaczy, do ćwiartowania zwierząt ofiarnych albo do dzielenia mięsa na ucztach. Znaleziska z Kraghede zostały określone jako one-edged lance head. Mogło to być też wyspecjalizowane narzędzie o nieznanej obecnie funkcji. Zachowany fragmentarycznie drugi nóż z Ład Nowych ma szerokie ostrze i jednostronnie wyodrębniony trzpień do rękojeści. Datowany jest na młodszy okres przedrzymski. [ryc. 3] Z żelaznego grotu zachowana jest tylko tulejka i fragment liścia tak niewielki, że nie można określić jego kształtu, typu ani chronologii [ryc. 4]. Z żelaznego umba zachował się tylko fragment kaloty z wąskim, tępo zakończonym kolcem, wmontowanym w otwór w kalocie i zaklepanym od wewnątrz. [ryc. 5; 6] Brak kaloty, kołnierza i nitów utrudnia jednoznaczne określenie typologiczne, a co za tym idzie chronologię tego przedmiotu. Tępo zakończone kolce są charakterystyczne zarówno dla umb datowanych na młodszy okres przedrzymski, określanych jako typ 7, wg typologii D. Bohnsacka, jak i dla umb datowanych na wczesny okres wpływów rzymskich, typ 7a wg M. Jahna. Kolce w egzemplarzach z fazy A3 najczęściej mocowane są do blachy kaloty za pomocą nitów. Technika zgrzewania nie wymagająca użycia nitów jest charakterystyczna dla egzemplarzy z fazy B2 wczesnego okresu wpływów rzymskich, ale była znana i mogła być stosowana już w młodszym okresie przedrzymskim. W miejscowości Łady Nowe najprawdopodobniej istotnie było cmentarzysko ciałopalne kultury przeworskiej, o czym świadczy sposób zniszczenia niektórych przedmiotów. Datowane jest na młodszy okres przedrzymski, może również później. Niestety nie można ustalić zespołów grobowych i omówione bardzo ciekawe znaleziska muszą być traktowane jako kolekcja zabytków.
A cemetery of the Przeworsk Culture at Oblin, site 5, gm. Maciejowice, woj. mazowieckie is located on a small elevation extended on N-S line, by the edge of the flood terrace of the old Vistula riverbed. It is possible that, in the time of use, bogs or floodwaters surrounded the cemetery. The cemetery is completely explored; 308 cremation graves, both pit and urn graves were found there. The earliest graves furnished with brooches type H, short brooches type B and type J can be dated to the phase A2 (Fig. 1–3). Very interesting is lack of the type K brooches, quite common in the other Przeworsk culture cemeteries of that time. Graves from the phase A3 produced vast amount of brooches type M (Fig. 4c). More significant finds from the Pre-Roman Period are swords, in a few cases found with ornamented scabbards (Fig. 5). Brooches type A.68 and A.236, shield grips with profiled rivet plates and shield bosses type J.6 (Fig. 7) and one-edged swords with narrow blade represent phase B1. Graves dated to that phase are not numerous, what suggests that on the cemetery in Oblin phase B1 lasted for relatively short time. Quite common for next phase B2, are iron trumpet-brooches with silver inlaid decoration (Fig. 9), and massive iron brooches of Almgren group V, with a crest. Very odd form presents an S-form brooch with an imitation of ahinged construction (Fig. 8a). Very significant for this cemetery is almost complete lack of bracelets and pendants; beads or melted glass clumps are also very rare. Weapon finds are, on the contrary, quite numerous. Most interesting among them is a an imported Roman sword ornamented with inlaid figure of Mars, and 3 unique barbed spearheads with extra barb on the edge of the socket. The latest finds – brooches of Almgren’s series 1, group V, variant 5 of trumpet brooches and Mazovian variant of Almgren’s group IV are connected with the very end of the phase B2 or perhaps phase B2/C1. Big, rectangular pits, even 2 m long, with very dark grave fill were atypical grave form in the phases A2 and A3. At the bottom often lays a layer of broken fragments of pottery. An urn, often covered with a bowl, or other big vessel, was usually placed in the corner. Pit graves were much more frequent then urn graves in phase B1, however, urn graves dominated in the phase B2. Grave pits are smaller, with brown, or light brown grave fill, sometimes even difficult to distinguish. Brown, coarse urns are much more frequent then black, polished 3-handle urns typical for the eastern zone of the Przeworsk Culture. Finds from Oblin, especially, from the early Roman Period differ from typical cemeteries of the eastern zone of the Przeworsk Culture such as Kamieńczyk or Nadkole and are closer to the finds known from the region on the other side of the Vistula river. It seems possible that the settlement of the people using the cemetery at Oblin could be placed on the western bank of the Vistula river.
The collection of the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw contains materials from a cemetery at Łęg Piekarski, Great Poland (Wielkopolska), originating both from chance finds as well as from brief but methodical research conducted in 1936 by Z. Durczewski. Unfortunately, substantial gaps in the documentation, loss of many of the original labels and the fact that grave inventories may have been mixed up when already in storage seriously hinder the reconstruction of the original grave assemblages. Establishing the actual number of graves is additionally made difficult by the fact that a cemetery of the Cloche Grave culture was also found on the same site, as confirmed also by 1975–77 investigation by K. Jażdżewski. In his publication E. Petersen listed - apart from finds originating from a “princely” grave – an Early Roman Period urned grave labelled as no. 1, and only a part of material originating from other cremation graves in storage at the State Archaeological Museum (E. Petersen 1940, 50, 51). Petersen nowhere explains what principles guided his selection of material for publication. At present the State Archaeological Museum collection contains the following materials: 1. Fragments of a Cloche Grave Culture urn defined as belonging to grave 1 (original label); 2. Finds identified as inventory of grave 2 (according to labels copied in the 1970s) include: an urn (Fig. 1a), a bowl (Fig. 1e), a cup (Fig. 1f), a vessel (Fig. 1g), an iron fibula similar to type A.76 (Fig. 1b), an iron single-edged sword (Fig. 2f), a fragment of an iron scabbard (Fig. 2k), an iron spur, so-called Stuhlsporn (Fig. 1d), two iron lance-points (Fig. 2c,d), a fragment of another iron point (Fig. 2e), an iron knife with a bronze hilt plate (Fig. 1c), two fragments of iron shears (Fig. 2b), two fragments of an iron mounting (Fig. 2i,j), two iron rivets (Fig. 2g,h), a frame of a bronze buckle, slightly deformed in fire (Fig. 1h), a fragment of an iron fitting (Fig. 2a) and numerous fragments of considerably damaged iron objects; 3. Grave 3 (original label) is represented only by lumps of melted bronze. The “princely” grave, labelled as grave IIa, contained fragments of a cup (Fig. 5a) and of glossy black vessels (Fig. 5b–e, 6a,b,f,h,i). Several score uncharacteristic pottery fragments, including a Cloche Grave Culture vessel, had been recovered, according to the labels, from ditches 1–4 and 8–10 (Fig. 6c–e,g). Artifacts originating from undetermined finds included two iron scabbard clasps (Fig. 3i, j), iron shears (Fig. 3a), a spike of an iron spur (Fig. 3h), a fragment of a bottom of a bronze vessel, mouth fragment of a bronze vessel (Fig. 3b), a fragment of a sheet bronze hoop (Fig. 3c), fragments of a bronze vessel damaged in fire, two ornamental bronze discs (Fig. 3d,e), two bronze rivets, presumably belonging to the ornamental discs (Fig. 3f), fragment of an iron tendril fibula (Fig. 3g) and a Marcus Aurelius denarius (A. Kietlińska 1957, 282). Moreover, the State Archaeological Museum contains materials from a flat cemetery published by E. Petersen (labels copied in the 1970s). To summarise, it may be said that the site at Łęg Piekarski included a Cloche Grave Culture cemetery and a burial ground of the Przeworsk Culture but the number of graves in the cemetery in question remains virtually unknown. K. Jażdżewski also identified several graves during his investigation of the site (K. Jażdżewski 1978, 128). The material from cremation graves is dated almost without exception to phases B1 and B2 of the Roman Period. This makes them contemporary with “princely” graves. Finds dating from the Pre-Roman Period are not in evidence even among stray finds recovered from trial trenches. This suggests the lack of continuity between the cemetery of the Cloche Grave Culture and that of the Przeworsk Culture. The latest material includes a bronze fibula type A.162 dated to phase C1b–C2 and a fragment of an iron tendril fibula, which may be dated generally to the Late Roman Period.
The greater part of site no. 1 at Oronne (comm. Maciejowice, distr. Garwolin, mazowieckie voiv.) was destroyed by earthworks and lost to a series of modern period cut features (Fig. 1, 2). The site was discovered by accident, reported to the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw in June 2004 and excavated in September 2004 and June 2005. Of 45 pits identified a vast majority are regularly spaced modern period features of unknown purpose (Fig. 4). Most of the archaeological material rested within the ploughsoil. Only pits 4, 9 and 44, are prehistoric features. Feature 8 and feature 18 have a Late Medieval date chronology. Feature 4 (Fig. 5) had the form of a pit with a non-uniform fill containing a small quantity of ceramic finds, including a few modern period sherds, lumps of daub, the handle of a clay spoon, type IV:2 of A. Michałowski, and fragments of pottery. Feature 8 (Fig. 6) was lost to a large modern period feature. Its black-coloured fill contained a concentration of stones, a segmented bead of opaque glass and a small quantity of pottery fragments. Its dating is late medieval – modern. Feature 18 (Fig. 7) is a pit, irregular of outline, with a fill containing fine fragments of ceramics, animal bones, lumps of daub, small lumps of corroded iron, 2 fragments of bronze sheet and a small glass bead. Its dating is late medieval-modern. Feature 9 (Fig. 8) is a small, deep pit with a fill containing several stones, isolated ceramic fragments and lumps of daub. Its chronology is hard to establish. Feature 44 (Fig. 9–11) was destroyed almost completely and survived only in its bottom part, which yielded a concentration of large stones and ceramics as well as the skull of a horse. The fill of this feature contained animal bones, a fragment of a clay spindlewhorl and several dozen larger and smaller vessel fragments, dated to the Late Pre-Roman Period. Attribution: Przeworsk Culture. The quantity of ceramic material discovered scattered within the ploughsoil and underneath is substantial, more than 10 kilograms, all of it greatly fragmented. This causes serious problems to chronological determination and culture attribution, which at times were unfeasible. The Lusatian Culture occupation (late Bronze Age to early Iron Age) is documented by a few dozen stray finds of pottery fragments (Fig. 14). The next phase is associated with material attributable to the Jastorf environment (Fig. 15). There are two incomplete clay spoons and a fragment of a firedog. Outside the territory of the Jastorf Culture and the Poieneşti-Lukaševka Culture (A. Michałowski 2004; T. Dąbrowska 1988, p. 186–188; 2008, p. 95–96) finds of these objects, not too common in any case, together with Jastorf type ceramics, attest to contacts and exchange with the Jastorf Culture which are still imperfectly understood. The large assemblage of Przeworsk ceramics discovered in the ploughsoil and the culture deposit (Fig. 16–18) mostly belongs in ceramic phase I, corresponding to the older segment of the Late Pre-Roman Period. In the group of stray ceramics there are fragments of vessels we can date to phase B2 (Fig. 19:149–152) and to the Late Roman Period (Wielbark Culture – Fig. 19:153.154). The stray find of a type A.128 fibula (Fig. 12:1), dated to phase B2/C1–C1a, is evidently associated with the Wielbark Culture. A cast fibula with a knob and a ‘frame’ foot similar to type A.185 (Fig. 12:3), belongs to a group of objects which, according to the recent analysis of J. Schuster (2004), are forms diagnostic for phases C2–C3 and have a distribution mostly in the region of the Vistula River mouth, Pomerania and western Brandenburg. Isolated specimens have been discovered on Bornholm (Kannikegård, grave 336) and in northern Mazowsze. The find from Oronne suggests contacts with the region of the Wielbark Culture settlement in the Vistula River mouth region. More problematic is culture attribution of a fibula classified to 2nd series of group VI (Fig. 12:2). It corresponds to type 122 or 124, of M. Schultze (1977, p. 76, pl. 9:122.124). Many specimens of this type, described as having ‘a stepped catchplate’, are recorded on the Przeworsk Culture territory – especially its southern part (K. Godłowski 1977, p. 28; P. Kaczanowski 1987, p. 62). They are assigned to phase C1 (M. Schultze 1977, p. 76; K. Godłowski 1977, p. 28). The form is unknown in the Wielbark Culture. Nevertheless, the fibula from Oronne may be associated with either culture. The connection with the Wielbark Culture is suggested by is raw material: bronze, since fibulae of this type discovered in Przeworsk deposits almost always are iron specimens. That the fibula has a design characteristic for the Przeworsk Culture while being made of raw material typical for the Wielbark Culture would be another argument to support close, neighbourly contacts and ties between the two culture groups. Among stray finds datable to the Roman Period is an iron awl (Fig. 12:5), a key (Fig.12:6), a fragment of a knife and fragments of metal sheet and wire (Fig. 12:7–11), attributable both to the Przeworsk and to the Wielbark Culture. This is true also of six spindlewhorls and a fragment of a clay weight, their form is too uncharacteristic to establish their culture attribution conclusively. An exceptional find from Oronne is a bronze coin discovered within the culture deposit (Fig. 12:25, 23): a fraction of a Maximianus Herculius follis struck in Alexandria around AD 296–297 (A. Bursche, K. Czarnecka 2006). Occupation of site 1 at Oronne during the Early Medieval Period is documented, next to some stray ceramics (Fig. 20), by the dating of feature 8, presumably a sort of a hearth, which yielded a segmented glass bead, a form dated to the 12th–13th cc. (Fig. 6:1). To the north of site 1, on a wooded scarp, is Oronne, site 2, a grave-site attributed to the Przeworsk Culture, possibly also, to the Wielbark Culture. The distance between the two sites in a straight line is small, about 250 m. The burial ground is known from an accidental discovery and never came under more regular archaeological excavation. The materials submitted – a sword, two shield-bosses, a shield-grip and a spear-head, a small knife and ring – are typical furnishings of the Przeworsk Culture graves during phases A3 and B1. Two buckles – type AH15 and a bronze buckle plate, presumably a type AH29 (Fig. 22:9.10), are forms datable to the end of the Roman Period, but also to the Migration Period, and their connection with the grave-site is obscure. Chronologically the oldest item is the heavily corroded shield-boss (Fig. 21:2), type B.8 (type 15 of T. Bochnak 2005, p. 108, pl. XXXIX), dated to phases A3 and A3/B1. The shield-boss, type J.5 (Fig. 21:3) and the shield-grip, type J.6 (Fig. 21:4), dated to the onset of phase B1, may be elements of the same shield. The spear-head, type V (P. Kaczanowski 1995, p. 17), is an Early Roman Period form (Fig. 21:5). This is probably also the dating of the knife and the ring (Fig. 22:7.8) which is interpreted as a grip. These objects were submitted together and could represent a single assemblage. The shield-boss with the shield-grip, the spear-head, the knife and ring, are typical furnishings of the first group of weapon graves of K. Godłowski (1992, p. 72, fig. 1). The sword (Fig. 20:1), may be classified to type A2 of M. Biborski (1978, p. 117, fig. 62), dated to the Early Roman Period, chiefly to phase B1, or to type G of T. Bochnak (2005, p. 69, pl. XX:1). Its Early Roman Period dating, phase B1, suggests that we can place it a single assemblage together with the earlier discussed shield-boss type J.5, and shield-grip, type J.6. The difference of chronology between the sword types named here may be deceptive as in the Przeworsk Culture weapons there is not clear cut dividing line between the end of the Late Pre-Roman Period and the onset of the Roman Period (T. Bochnak 2005, p. 171). Basing on the incomplete archaeological record from Oronne we can only conclude that there used to be a grave-field of the Przeworsk Culture, presumably during the Late Pre-Roman and the Early Roman Periods and that the site was penetrated also during the Migration Period. Despite serious destruction of the site, and consequently, the patchy archaeological record, the investigation made at Oronne furnished an interesting input: evidence on the Lusatian Culture occupation, occupation during the Late Pre-Roman Period attesting to connections with the Jastorf environment. The site may have been under the Przeworsk Culture settlement during the Early Roman Period, this is confirmed indirectly by archaeological material from the neighbouring grave-field (site 2) dated to phase B1. The Wielbark Culture occupation is suggested by the presence of fibulae and the coin although we cannot establish whether the settlement continued over a longer period.
The territory of Poland has yielded three finds of lanceheads with a blade recycled from a fragment of a sword blade. Cierniówka/Czerniówka, distr. Grójec, southern Masovia (Fig. 1; unpublished, collections of the State Archaeological Museum, inv. PMA VI/827). Blade lightly bent, broken. Surviving length 13.5 cm. Octagonal-sectioned socket, D. 2.3 at the mouth, with non-forged edges; socket opening bound with a heavy iron ring decorated with a facetted zigzag design. Fairly deep (8 cm) slit to insert the lancehead blade, secured using 2 rivets. The blade had a fire patina, confirmed by metallographic analysis (cf. Annex). Radawa, distr. Jarosław, Lesser Poland (Fig. 2; A. Kokowski 2000, fig. 5). Lancehead with a fire patina, bent, straightened by the finder. Socket (L. 15.5 cm), polygonal-sectioned, with non-forged edges, c. 7 cm long slot with an inserted fragment (24.3×4 cm) of sword blade (the point), secured using two round-headed rivets; socket opening bound with a ring decorated with a facetted zigzag design. Tarnówko, distr. Inowrocław, Kuyavia (Fig. 3; W. Hensel, Z. Hil¬czer-Kurnatowska, A. Łosińska 1995, p. 29, fig. 16:8). Straightened lancehead, L. 47 cm (blade 36×4.5 cm), blade secured using two rivets. Fairly narrow socket, D. 1.9 cm at the mouth, delicately facetted, with non-forged edges. No surviving ring, but there is clear evidence that originally the socket had one. All three specimens are random finds and lack context, but in each locality where they were discovered there is a cemetery of Przeworsk Culture; moreover the fire patina (Cierniówka, Radawa) and partial melting of the bronze (Tarnówko) agree with the funerary rite practiced in this culture. Swords, the blades of which went into making these lanceheads, are datable to phase C2 of the Roman Period. We may assume that they had continued in use for some time before they broke and were recycled, therefore the lanceheads of interest may be dated to the Late Roman Period – phases C3–D. The technique and details of manufacture of these lanceheads do not find analogy on territory of Przeworsk Culture or in neighbouring cultures of the European Barbaricum. The ring around the socket may have affinity with Sarmatian shafted weapons (O. V. Simonenko 1996, p. 207; A. M. Hazanov 1971, p. 44–50). Some analogy in terms of shape, but not construction, is shown by sword-like lanceheads with a long blade with parallel edges and a short, usually facetted socket, known from a small number of scattered finds dated to the close of the Roman Period and later (Fig. 4). Similar lanceheads are known from the cemetery at Čatyr-dag/Чатыр-даг, raj. Bakčisarai in Crimea (V. L. Myc et alii, 2006, p. 119, 151, fig. 7:2.3), sites of Tsebelda Culture in Abkhazia (Û. N. Voronov, N. K. Šenkao 1982, p. 126, fig. 2:5, 20, 32), cemetery of Luboszyce Culture at Dresden-Dobritz, Stadkr. Dresden, Saxony (E. Meyer 1971, p. 50, fig. 24:7.8), and somewhat later, the area of south-eastern Lithuania (V. Kazakâvičûs 1988, p. 41, fig. 15, map VII). The manufacturing technique itself – inserting the blade into a slot cut in the socket – is known from Hunnic-Sarmatian sites on the Volga and western Kazakhstan. Two lanceheads made using this technique originate from a quite rich warrior grave in barrow 1 from the cemetery near locality Lebedevka/Лeбедевка (Fig. 5), raj. Čingirlau, western Kazakhstan, dated to AD 2nd–4th c. (G. I. Bagrikov, T. N. Senigova 1968, p. 81 ff; M. G. Moškova 1982; S. G. Botalov 2006b, fig. 5:5, 75), or alternately, AD 4th–5th c. (S. G. Botalov, S. Û. Gucalov 2000, p. 121, 132). One of the lanceheads has a facetted socket bound with a ring. The blade is not too long, 27 cm, with a width of 4 cm, flat-lenticular in section. Surviving entire, the wooden shaft had a silver mount with rich ornament of band designs at bottom. The socket of the second lancehead is incomplete, missing its bottom part therefore it is unclear whether originally it also was bound using a similar ring. Its surviving length is 35 cm, the blade with long and parallel edges, 22 cm long and 3 cm wide. The grave is richly furnished with weapons, a great many ornaments and imports. The same technique was used also in making a lancehead (Fig. 6) described as Sarmatian-Hunnic discovered in Communist State Farm Voskhod/Вoсхoд, near the town of Pokrovsk/Покровск (formerly Engelsk/Eнгелск), obl. Saratov/Cаратов (I. V. Sinicyn 1936, fig. 3; J. Werner 1955, pl. 40:4; A. K. Am¬broz 1989, fig.15:4; I. P. Zaseckaâ 1994, p. 35, pl. 32:2). According to a description (I. V. Sinicyn 1936, p. 75), two projecting parts of the socket were attached to the blade, inserted between them, by welding (or soldering). These are burials described as having “Hunnic-Sarmatian” attributes (S. G. Botalov, S. Û. Gucalov 2000; S. G. Botalov 2006b, p. 38). It is important that, although quite far apart geographically, these pieces belong to the same culture environment as the lanceheads from the late phase of Przeworsk Culture. Numerous imports – bronze vessels, amphorae, ornaments – testify to regular contact with the area on the Black Sea (M. G. Moškova 1982, passim; A. Simonenko, I. I. Marčenko, N. Û. Limberis 2008). “Gothic” imports as well as objects originating from the territory of the Roman Empire discovered in “Lebedevka” barrows have been interpreted as evidence of multi-facetted cultural, commercial and military-political links with the West (Fig. 9; S. G. Botalov, S. Û. Gucalov 2000, p. 132). Lanceheads from Sarmatian and Hunnic finds from the Great Hungarian Plain from the Migrations Period, classified to group 6 of E. Istvánovits and V. Kulcsár (1995, p. 21), quite long (up to 40 cm) with a relatively narrow blade, dated from 2nd/3rd until 5th c., may have been manufactured using a similar technique, or at least, a technique resembling it (Fig. 7). They are not secured with rivets but may be – similarly as the specimen from Voskhod/Pokrovsk – welded of two elements. At least, in their appearance they imitate lanceheads produced using this technique. A lancehead from a Hunnic votive deposit from Pécs-Üszög/Pécsüszög (Fig. 8), kom. Baranya in the Hungarian Plain (J. Hampel 1905, p. 371, fig. 1a; I. Bóna 1991, p. 277, fig. 44; B. Anke 1998, p. 102, Pl.. 119:18) is made of two elements: blade and socket, forged (welded) together, although in none of the publications the method of manufacturing this lancehead is mentioned. The lancehead, some 28 cm in length, is nevertheless slightly different from pieces discussed earlier, as the split socket is hammered quite wide, reaching to the edge of the flat blade with a gently sub-triangular section, forming on both its sides noticeable protrusions. Remaking a sword into a lancehead possibly had more than just a practical reason – the aim was to preserve the damaged sword, perhaps, a valuable heirloom. Reforging a broken sword into a new one for a son and heir is an important motif in the Volsungasaga (Fig. 10), the framework of which took form during the Migrations Period (P. Vang Petersen 2003, p. 291); we may assume that the motif was present in the tradition and imagination of the people at the close of antiquity. It is not impossible that the lanceheads had no utilitarian function and were used as banners of sorts, or as ceremonial weapons. The manufacturing technique itself: a separate blade attached in a slit socket, most probably was an experiment of sorts, perhaps, made in one particular workshop (this would explain the strikingly similar lancehead finds from Cierniówka and Radawa), although we can suppose that they had been inspired by Sarmatian (Hunnic) lances.
Material from the cemetery of the Przeworsk culture at Wólka Domaniowska (M. Olędzki 2000) held by the J. Malczewski Museum in Radom includes a number of previously unpublished items: 2 fragments of an iron shield-grip, type J. 6 (Fig. 1a); 2 small damaged iron spearheads with blunted edges (Fig. 1b.c); 7 damaged iron scabbard fittings (Fig. 2d); a bronze rivet from a sword hilt (Fig. 2c), iron buckle, Madyda-Legutko type D1 (Fig. 2a), iron knife, flexed twice (Fig. 2b). Discovered inside a flattened shield-boss (Fig. 1d) the objects most probably belong to grave 66, which produced the rest of the shield-grip (Fig. 3c) as well as a one-edged sword (Fig. 3b). Another previously unpublished item in the Museum collection – iron shears (Fig.3a) – very likely belongs to the same grave inventory. The practice of depositing smaller objects inside shield-bosses is well known across the Przeworsk culture area. Deliberate disfigurement of grave goods, weapons mostly, is also quite common, unlike intentional blunting of spearhead edges, which is recorded at a much smaller number of sites, eg Wymysłowo, distr. Gostyń, grave 85 (S. Jasnosz 1952, fig. 62:1), Domaradzice, distr. Rawicz, grave 44 (B. Kostrzewski 1954, fig. 166:40) and Velatice, grave 4, Moravia (J. Tejral 1977, fig. 10:3). Blunted edges are noted also on a few spearheads from random finds, dated, similarly as grave 66 from Wólka Domaniowska, to phase B1. Evidence of the same custom is seen on spearhead finds from the Late Roman period, from eg Scandinavia and the Przeworsk culture area.
From the accidently discovered “grave I” from Łęg Piekarski (Turek County, Poland) comes a unique bronze bowl with a perforated wall and an enamelled, zoomorphic spout, which finds analogies among the Late Celtic vessels from the British Isles. A re-analysis, which took into account the increase in the reference material, made it possible to present a new interpretation of this unusual find, both in regard to its form and supposed use. The strainer and spout suggest that the vessel might have been used to prepare herbal infusions. We do not know if it was used in this manner in the territory of the Przeworsk Culture.
A remarkable sword scabbard surfaced in a cremation burial excavated on the cemetery at Orenice in 2012 by the team from the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography in Łódź led by W. Siciński PhD. The scabbard, made of two pieces of brass sheet, had been destroyed deliberately. Its mouth is bell-shaped. Originally, the upper part of the scabbard was provided with a decorative plate in an openwork design, now surviving only in fragments, but the very distinct impression left by the now missing fragments permit a fairly accurate reconstruction (Fig. 5, 6). The lower plate of the suspension loop, rectangular of shape, passed to a long, narrow gutter fixed with rivets (Fig. 7), similarly as in specimens from Witaszewice, Łęczyca County, grave 147/1937, or Zemplín, Trebišov County, grave 108 (cf. K. Czarnecka 2014, fig. 1, 3:2, 4). The most remarkable element of the scabbard is its triangular chape, ending in a massive, lightly flattened knob, H. 1 cm, D. 1.5 cm (Fig. 6:2). Chapes with a knob, characteristic for swords type Mainz and a little later, for type Pompeii, were mounted onto the base of scabbards made of organic materials (M. Biborski 1999, fig. 13; C. Miks 2007, p. 222–228; L. Pernet 2011, p. 102, 104, fig. 124). Scabbards of this form were part of the Roman Republican army equipment. At the same time, metal scabbards with openwork plating, but with a different form of chape, appear among the Celtic military gear. The combination of these two evidently divergent traditions and techniques of scabbard making in the specimen from Orenice is unprecedented. The dating of the grave inventory is problematic. Most of the grave goods: spur, knife with a clamp (Fig. 4:5.12) and scabbard, date to the close of phase A3, possibly the onset of phase B1. At the same time, the inventory features a brooch, variant K (Fig. 4:2), datable to phase A2. This chronological discrepancy may be explained in two ways: the brooch could have entered the assemblage by accident or a no longer recoverable cut had been made into an earlier grave.
An iron sword was found during the deepening of the Warta river bed in the mid-1960s. It was recovered from the river at the level of the former village of Kurów, presently a district of Konin (Fig. 1). The artefact is stored in the District Museum in Konin. The artefact was preserved in a good condition (Fig. 2). Its total length is 87.3 cm (originally 90 cm). The blade is double edged, tapering slightly towards the point. The cross-section is faceted, almost flat near the point. The flats are even. The cut of the edges is flat. The point is short, beveled into a sharp arc. The length of the blade is 78.6 cm; the length of the point is 5.3 cm; the width of the blade at the hilt is 5.3 cm; the width of the blade at the point is 4.3 cm. The blade corresponds to type B.II.1, cross-section type 11 in the classification of M. Biborski (Fig. 3), and the sword itself represents type Ejsbøl-Sarry, subtype 2 (M. Biborski, J. Ilkjær 2006, p. 259–271, fig. 117). Macroscopic observations (Fig. 5, 6) and a X-ray photo (Fig. 4) indicate that the pattern welding technique was used in making the blade. The ratio of the length of the blade to the hilt and the location of the center of gravity indicate that the sword was intended mainly for fighting from horseback. The most numerous finds of swords of the type Ejsbøl-Sarry come from the bog deposits in southern Scandinavia (Illerup and Ejsbøl), but they are also known from the territory of the Przeworsk Culture. Their chronology is quite wide. The earliest specimens found as it happens at the sites of the Przeworsk Culture are dated to the phase C2. The vast majority, however, comes from a later period – phase D. The stray find of the sword from Konin-Kurów should be associated with the Przeworsk Culture and dated generally to the phase C2–D. It is noteworthy that the sword from Konin-Kurów was found in a river. In the case of individual objects found in lakes or rivers, it is difficult to establish unequivocally whether we are dealing with an accidental loss, e.g., during a crossing, or with a sacrificial deposit.
The artefact which is the subject of this article is an enigmatic object – a piece of sophisticated fitting that has no analogies in the materials of the Przeworsk culture. Due to the lack of exact analogies, a clear determination of its function seems not easy, but it is possible that the artefact represents an element of the metal lock for a wooden casket. The find comes from an amateur research conducted by Seweryn Tymieniecki at Kwiatków, Turek County, at the end of the 19th century. It is a stray find collected from the area of the cemetery. The archival illustrations show the artefact in its entirety – its both parts are connected with rivets (Fig. 2, 3). Unfortunately, its state of preservation has dramatically deteriorated over time (Fig. 4). The dimensions of the rectangular elements of the alleged lock mounting are 5.5×4.5 cm. One of the plates has a centrally located, square hole measuring 1.5×1 cm. At the shorter edge of the other plate, there are two holes with a diameter of about 0.3 cm (spacing – 0.7 cm). According to the preserved archival illustrations, the plate was fitted (probably by welding or soldering) with a small “pocket” (slide) made of iron sheet bent twice at right angles. It is open at one end, flattened and closed at the other. It resembles lock with barbed bolt. The double barb bolt was inserted vertically through the opening in the lid into a groove, with the barbs directed to the wall. The edge of the plate above the holes is folded over about 2 mm (Fig. 4). Slightly tilted barbs blocked on the fold, preventing the lid from being moved. The key had to be bent in such a way that, when inserted through the square hole in the outer fitting, it could reach the holes in the inner fitting with its teeth and through them it pressed the barbs against the bolt. This released the lock allowing the bolt to be pulled out and the box to be opened (Fig. 5). The lock for the Kwiatków casket could be a kind of hybrid – a variant of the Kietrz lock with some elements characteristic of the Wetzendorf lock (Fig. 7). The effectiveness of the proposed method of operation of the discussed mechanism was confirmed in the reconstruction of the box with such a lock. The materials from Kwiatków represent random, stray finds and they do not include a bolt or a key that could be an element of the analysed lock. However, keys of a shape corresponding to the hypothetical reconstruction of the lock were found in the cemeteries from Gronówko, Leszno County, and from Wiktorów, Zgierz County (Fig. 9). The lack of context for the discovery of the artefact as well as the lack of straight parallels make it difficult to draw conclusions concerning its dating. Its chronological determination is possible within the framework of the entire collection of artefacts obtained from the cemetery at Kwiatków, which is dated to phases B1–C2, however, most of the finds came from phase B2/C1 of the Roman Period.
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Zabytek będący przedmiotem niniejszego artykułu to zagadkowy przedmiot – skomplikowane okucie nie mające analogii w materiałach kultury przeworskiej. Brak ścisłych analogii powoduje, że określenie jego funkcji nie jest oczywiste, ale wydaje się, że mógł to być element mechanizmu zamykającego drewniana skrzynkę. Znalezisko pochodzi z amatorskich badań prowadzonych w Kwiatkowie, pow. Turek, przez Seweryna Tymienieckiego pod koniec XIX wieku. Jest to znalezisko luźne z powierzchni cmentarzyska. Na archiwalnych rycinach zabytek przedstawiony jest jeszcze w całości – obie jego części połączone są nitami. Obecnie jego stan zachowania jest znacznie gorszy. Wymiary prostokątnych elementów domniemanego okucia zamka to 5,5 x 4,5 cm. Jedna z płytek posiada centralnie umieszczony, czworokątny otwór o wymiarach 1,5 x 1 cm, Przy krótszej krawędzi drugiej płytki znajdują się dwa otworki o średnicy około 0,3 cm (rozstaw – 0,4 cm). Według zachowanych ilustracji archiwalnych na tej blaszce była przymocowana, zapewne za pomocą zgrzewania albo lutowania, „kieszonka” wykonana z zagiętej dwukrotnie pod kątem prostym blachy żelaznej. Na jednym końcu jest otwarta, a spłaszczona i zamknięta przy drugim. Byłby to zamek zaciskowy. Rygiel z podwójnym wąsem wprowadzony był pionowo przez otwór w wieku do rynienki, wąsami do ścianki. Krawędź blaszki nad otworkami jest zagięta na około 2 mm. Lekko odchylone wąsy blokowały się na tym zagięciu uniemożliwiając przesunięcie wieka. Klucz musiał być wygięty w taki sposób, żeby po wprowadzeniu przez kwadratowy otwór w okuciu zewnętrznym, mógł dosięgnąć zębami otworków w wewnętrznym okuciu i poprzez nie docisnąć wąsy do trzpienia. To powodowało zwolnienie blokady umożliwiając wyciągnięcie rygla i otworzenie skrzynki. Zamek skrzynki z Kwiatkowa mógł być swoistą hybrydą – odmianą zamka typu Kietrz z pewnymi elementami charakterystycznymi dla zamka typu Wetzendorf. Skuteczność zaproponowanego sposobu działania omawianego mechanizmu została potwierdzona w wykonanej przez W. Rutkowskiego rekonstrukcji skrzynki z takim zamkiem. Materiały z Kwiatkowa to znaleziska luźne, zbierane dość przypadkowo i nie ma wśród nich ani rygla ani klucza, które mogłyby być elementami omawianego zamka. Klucze o kształcie odpowiadającym hipotetycznej rekonstrukcji zostały znalezione na cmentarzyskach w Gronówku, pow. leszczyński oraz w Wiktorowie, pow. zgierski. Brak kontekstu odkrycia zabytku oraz analogii utrudnia wyciągnięcie wniosków na temat jego datowania. Określenie chronologii możliwe jest w ramach całości materiału zabytkowego pozyskanego z cmentarzyska w Kwiatkowie, którego chronologia przypada głównie na fazy B1, B2 i C1 okresu rzymskiego.
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