PARS PRO TOTO I MONOSANDALIZM (NA KANWIE MONOGRAFII THORSBERGER MOOR)

• Authors: Baranowski Tadeusz

Title variants

EN

Pars pro toto and monosandalism (based on the Thorsberger Moor monograph)

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Weapon offering deposits have been discovered on peat-bog cult sites from the Roman period in Denmark and Germany; Thorsberger Moor near Schlezwig is one of the better known sites of this kind. Publications are useful for in-depth analysis and interpretation of different aspects of culture. Intentionally destroyed weapons of defeated enemies are believed to have been deposited as offerings. One example of this way of thinking in reference to Thorsberg is the presence, almost without exception, of the left shoes. This example of monosandalism, which appears in different cultures starting with the ancient Greeks, is not pars pro toto evidence of human offerings, especially in view of finds of this kind from Alken Enge near Illerup Adal.

Keywords

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Scandinavia; Thorsberger Moor; Illerup Adal; Alken Enge; peat-bog offering sites; weapon offerings; human offerings; monosandalism

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Archeologia Polski
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 63
• Pages: 175-182

Contributors

author

Baranowski Tadeusz

• Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN, al. Solidarności 105, 00-140 Warszawa