Bronzová plastika z Veľkého Medera

• Authors: Varsik Vladimír

Title variants

EN

Bronze statuette from Veľký Meder

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

In 1997, during a surface prospection, a fragment of a Roman bronze statuette was found at a Germanic settlement from the 2nd to 4th century in Veľký Meder (southwestern Slovakia). It is probably a figure of Hercules, who is leaning on a club with his right hand. In recent years, there have been discoveries of bronze and lead Roman statuettes from the Germanic sites in western Slovakia. A discussion was therefore opened about the penetration of Roman ideas into the spiritual world of the Germanic people. However, the statuette of Mercury placed in a Germanic urn grave at the burial site in Ivanka pri Dunaji represents a non-Roman act. It testifies to the distinctive approach and ‚non-Roman perception‘ of the Roman artefact. In the Roman world, bronze statuettes were rarely placed in graves.

Keywords

EN

Central Danube; barbaricum; germanic settlement; roman period; bronze statuette; hercules

• Publisher: Slovak National Museum – Archaeological Museum
• Journal: Zborník Slovenského národného múzea Archeológia
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 117
• Pages: 179-187

Contributors

author

Varsik Vladimír

• Trnavská univerzita v Trnave, Filozofická fakulta, Hornopotočná 23, SK – 918 43 Trnava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.55015/ASAT5158