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English: Golden pendants from a Germanic woman's burial - Grave 2 of the grave field Fenéki Street at Keszthely-Fenékpuszta
  • Zala County, Hungary

Two pear-shaped pendants of gold. The front sides are decorated in cloisonné manner (compartments with inlays). The compartments are filled with almandines as well as blue and green glass inlays on thin-walled cloisons of gold foil.

These finds lay scattered in the fill dirt of the burial of a 16- to 18-year-old woman and are counted among the most unusual goldsmith works of 6th-century Pannonia. They presumably date to the period after 568, when the Lombards departed for Italy. They are nonetheless undoubtedly of Germanic origin.

This burial was in Grave 2 of the grave field Fenéki Street at Keszthely-Fenékpuszta, a site comprising ten graves located north of the late Roman fortress of Keszthely-Fenékpuszta. Corpses were interred in individual, narrow burial holes. The actual holes were covered with wooden boards. In addition, there were some interments in tree trunk coffins.

  • Photographed while on display from 22 August 2008 to 11 January 2009 in the exhibition "Die Langobarden. Das Ende der Völkerwanderung" at the Rheinisches LandesMuseum Bonn. On loan from the Balatoni Múzeum Keszthely.
Deutsch: Goldene Anhänger von einer germanischen Frauenbestattung - Grab 2 des Gräberfeldes Fenéki-Straße von Keszthely-Fenékpuszta
  • Komitat Zala, Ungarn

Zwei goldene, birnenförmige Anhänger. Die Vorderseiten sind in Cloisonné-Technik (Zellwerk mit Einlagen) verziert. Die Zellen sind mit Almandinen sowie blauen und grünen Glaseinlagen auf fein gewaffelter Goldfolie gefüllt.

Diese Funde lagen zerstreut in der Grabverfüllung der Bestattung einer 16 bis 18 Jahre alten Frau und zählen zu den außergewöhnlichsten Goldschmiedearbeiten des 6. Jahrhunderts in Pannonien. Vermutlich datieren sie bereits in die Zeit nach 568, dem Zeitpunkt der Abwanderung der Langobarden nach Italien. Sie sind aber zweifelsfrei germanischen Ursprungs.

Diese Bestattung ist Grab 2 des zehn Gräber umfassenden Bestattungsplatzes, der nördlich der spätrömischen Festung von Keszthely-Fenékpuszta liegt. Es handelt sich um Bestattungen mit abgesetzten Grabgruben. Die eigentliche enge Grabgrube wurde mit Holzbrettern bedeckt. Daneben kommen jedoch auch Bestattungen in Baumsärgen vor.

  • Exponate in der Ausstellung „Die Langobarden. Das Ende der Völkerwanderung“ vom 22.08.2008-11.01.2009 im Rheinischen LandesMuseum Bonn. Leihgaben aus dem Balaton-Museum Keszthely.
Date mid-third of 6th century / mittleres Drittel des 6. Jahrhunderts
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Author James Steakley
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