The next three Suebi! A Roman Period „princely grave“ with Roman import and other grave finds from Kariv-I in the western UkraineIn spring 2017, the Historical-Regional Museum in Vinniki was informed about the discovery of several metal objects discovered by detectorists in the vicinity of the village Kariv, obl. Ľviv, Fpl. I, in western Ukraine. An immediately scheduled excavation should deliver information about the character and state of preserving of the site. It took place in summer 2017 under the direction of Jaroslav Oniščuk (Ivan Franko University Ľviv). At the very beginning of these investigations, two extremely interesting graves (1 and 2) were discovered, dating back to the late second century AD. Grave 1 contained fragments of a Roman amphora dating from the second third of the 1st century BC to the middle of the 2nd century AD, a terra sigillata vessel with applied decoration, a severely disintegrated horse skull and bridle of the Vimose type, five iron arrowheads, ritually bent iron scissors, a fragmentary shield shackle, two molten and broken bronze spurs and belt fittings.Given his inventory grave 2 can be named “princely grave“. As a urn was used a bronze cauldron with three busts of Germanic men with the so-called Suebian knot, to which there are known only two parallels next to a loose find of a single bust. As a second metal vessel, the grave contained a bronze bucket, furthermore two glass goblets with oval cut facets, two glass bowls, and a fifth glass vessel so badly decomposed that it could not be retrieved. Also email-decorated drinking horn components made of copper alloy have to be mentioned. They and the finds of Roman provenance from grave 2 can be called spectacular. They indicate an outstanding position of the owner in his environment and also on a supraregional scale. The graves can be dated to the time of the Marcomannic Wars or shortly thereafter and are certainly related to these events in a causal connection.
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Vinniki über den Fund von mehreren Metallgegenständen informiert, die von Sondengängern im Gebiet des Dorfes Kariv, obl. Ľviv, Fpl. I, in der Westukraine entdeckt wurden. Eine unverzüglich anberaumte Verifizierungsgrabung sollte Aufschluss über den Charakter und Erhaltungszustand des Platzes geben. Sie fand im Sommer 2017 unter der Leitung von Jaroslav Oniščuk (Ivan Franko-Universität Ľviv) statt. Sofort bei Beginn dieser Untersuchungen wurden zwei äußerst bemerkenswerte Grablegen (Grab 1 und Grab 2) des späten zweiten Jahrhunderts n.Chr. freigelegt. Grab 1 barg Fragmente einer römischen Amphore die in die Zeit vom zweiten Drittel des 1. Jh. bis in die Mitte des 2. Jh. datiert, eines Terra Sigillata-Gefäßes mit applizierter Verzierung, einen stark zersetzten Pferdeschädel samt Zaumzeug vom Typ Vimose, fünf eiserne Pfeilspitzen, eine rituell verbogene Eisenschere, eine fragmentarische Schildfessel, das Fragment eines Schildbuckels, zwei angeschmolzene und zerbrochene Bügelsporen aus Bronze sowie Gürtelbeschläge. Grab 2 verdient aufgrund seines Inventars die forschungsgeschichtlich fest etablierte Bezeichnung „Fürstengrab“. Als Urne diente ein Bronzekessel mit drei Attaschen in Form von Germanen mit Suebenknoten, zu dem es neben einer einzelnen Attasche bislang nur zwei Parallelen gibt. Als zweites Metallgefäß barg das Grab einen Eimer mit Frauenkopfattaschen, ferner zwei Glasbecher mit Ovalschlifffacetten, zwei ineinandergestellte Glasschalen sowie ein fünftes Glasgefäß, das so stark zersetzt war, dass es nicht geborgen werden konnte. Als weitere Beigaben sind vor allem emailverzierte Trinkhornbestandteile aus Kupferlegierung zu nennen. Diese und die Funde römischer Provenienz aus Grab 2 sind spektakulär zu nennen; sie zeigen eine herausragende Position des einstigen Besitzers in seinem Umfeld und auch im überregionalen Maßstab an. Die Gräber können in die Zeit während der Markomannenkriege oder kurz danach datiert werden und stehen mit diesen Ereignissen sicher in einem ursächlichen Zusammenhang.
From the large Germanic settlement of Kostolište, about 40 km north of Carnuntum, comes Germanic und Roman pottery, terra sigillata, coins, brooches, fragments of bronze vessels and small finds. It comes from here also the part of a Roman jug with foot handle, representing a military sandal (caliga). The find is the first evidence of this type north of the middle Danube. Two production centres are postulated for the jugs with foot handle between Gallia Belgica and Germania inferior as well as in Pannonia during the 2 nd and the first half of the 3 rd century AD. The decorative attaches of the jugs show either bare or shoed feet, whose symbolic content and possible interpretations are discussed. In the article is presented also an Aureus from Vespasianus for Titus, only the third documented aureus from the Záhorie region and roman and Germanic bronze brooches from the 1.–3. centuries AD.
In 2005 grave no. 112 in a cemetery of Wielbark Culture at Babi Dół-Borcz, distr. Kartuzy, produced a provincial Roman disc brooch ornamented with white, blue and red enamel (Pl. I:1). In different systems of classification the specimen is defined as type Exner III.26, type Thomas ‘a’, group Ambroz 8, type Böhme 41y, type Ettlinger 45, group Rieckhoff B or type Feugère 25b. Enamelled disc brooches are recorded in number in Danubian and Rhinish provinces, dated from 70–80ies AD to the second half of 3rd c. In Barbaricum they are relatively the most numerous in Elbian Culture, West-Balt Culture, as well as Przeworsk and Wielbark Cultures. Among finds of Roman provincial brooches recorded in Poland the best dated pieces are known from assemblages of Wielbark Culture, where they continue in use from phase B2b until phase C1b. Somewhat later, during phase B2/C1, they start to appear in Bogaczewo Culture, and continue in evidence for a longer period, until phase C2/C3 (Pl. II–IV). Enamelled provincial Roman brooches were in Barbaricum an integral element of women’s attire. They tend to occur in moderately and quite modestly furnished graves and are much more rare in deposits containing a larger quantity of Roman imports.
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