Magia – religia – ostentacja. Kaptorgi z wczesnośredniowiecznego cmentarzyska w radomiu w ujęciu komparatystycznym

• Authors: Tomasz Kurasiński

Title variants

EN

Magic – religion – ostentation. Lockets from an early-medieval grave field in Radom. A comparative approach

Abstracts

EN

This article presents an analysis of two brass lockets, rectangular in shape, discovered in a richly equipped grave no. 62 in an early-medieval grave field in Radom (the 4th quarter of the 11-12th centuries). As a result of the analysis, their cognitive value can be estimated in a comprehensive way against the background of other finds of the type excavated in graves. On the other hand, it has allowed to enrich the knowledge of burying the dead with objects of magical and religious nature. The lockets discovered in Radom were made locally, most probably as imitations of more sophisticated pendants. Most probably, they were used as containers for magical or healing amulets, possibly contact relics (brandeum, eulogiae) or perfumes. They were probably buried after mid-11th century, during the religious transformation taking place in the early Piast state, bearing material testimony to the intertwining pagan rites and the ceremonies of the new faith.

Keywords

EN

early Middle Ages; grave treasures; burial rites; Radom; locket; gold smithery

• Publisher: Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk
• Journal: Slavia Antiqua: rocznik poświęcony starożytnościom słowiańskim
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 62
• Pages: 233-284

Contributors

author

Tomasz Kurasiński

• Ośrodek Badań nad Dawnymi Technologiami, Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

• https://orcid.org/0000000281581104

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/sa.2021.62.11

Biblioteka Nauki

1887261