Dacian bracelets

English: The Dacian bracelets are bracelets associated with the ancient peoples known as the Dacians, a particularly individualized branch of the Thracians. These bracelets were used as ornaments, currency, high rank insignia and votive offerings. Their ornamentations consist of many elaborate regionally distinct styles. Bracelets of various types were worn by Dacians, but the most characteristic piece of their jewelry was the large multi-spiral bracelets; engraved with palmettes towards the ends and terminating in the shape of an wolf head, and the body of an snake. (→Dacian bracelets)

Română: Brățări dacice

Material[edit]

Gold[edit]

Gold Dacian bracelet
Gold Dacian bracelet
Gold Dacian bracelet
Gold Dacian bracelet
Gold Dacian bracelet
Gold Dacian bracelets
Gold Dacian bracelets
Gold Dacian bracelet
Gold Dacian bracelets
Gold Dacian bracelet - Head
Gold Dacian bracelet
Gold Dacian bracelet
Gold Dacian bracelet
Gold Dacian bracelet
Gold Dacian bracelet
Gold Dacian bracelets
Dacian gold bracelets from Firighiaz type 1
Dacian gold bracelets from Firighiaz type 2
Dacian gold bracelet Firighiaz type 3
Dacian's fir-tree motif of the gold bracelets
Dacian's palmette motif of the gold bracelets

Silver[edit]

Silver Dacian bracelet
Silver Dacian bracelet
The typical silver bracelet of the Dacians - Repository Cluj-Napoca Museum
Palmettes of Dacian bracelets
Dacian's fir-tree and "collar" motif of the bracelets
Dacian's palmette motif of the bracelets
Silver bracelets Cerbăl (Hunedoara County) La Tène III
Dacian gold-plated silver bracelet from Orastie Repository Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum
Silver snake-headed bracelet (Transylvania)
Silver Darlos (Sibiu County)
Silver Treasure Oradea (Bihor County)
Silver bracelets from Hetur (Mures County) and Vaidei (Hunedoara County)

Bronze[edit]

By type[edit]

Spiral[edit]

Silver bracelets Cerbăl (Hunedoara County) La Tène III

Open[edit]

"Open" type bracelets from Spalnaca (Alba)

Overlaping ends[edit]

Typical overlaping ends bracelets (i.e.Slimnic silver treasure)

Rolled ends[edit]

Dacian bracelets, rolled ends

Closed ends from wire with twisted ends[edit]

Hook-and-eye closing[edit]

Hook-and-eye closing

Ribbed bar[edit]

One-spiral bar with engraved end[edit]

Bar plastic decorated with S[edit]

Semi sphere[edit]

Multiple twisted wires[edit]

Decorated band with circles and dotted lines[edit]

With volutes[edit]

With double volutes[edit]

By period[edit]

Bracelets in the transition period North Thracian / proto-Dacian[edit]

Dacian gold bracelets from Firighiaz type 1
Dacian gold bracelets from Firighiaz type 2
Dacian gold bracelet Firighiaz type 3
Gold coils frp, Sighetu Marmaţiei
Gold snake head not-spiralized bracelet Toteşti (Hunedoara County) Late Hallstatt
Classical type of Dacian-Hallstattian gold bracelet.jpg
Gold bracelet Săcueni (Bihor County)
Dacian gold bracelet Simleul Silvaniei
Bracelet from Transylvania
Dacian gold bracelet finds Biia (Arad) Bronze IV=Hallstatt I
Solid gold bracelet from Pipea (Mures County)
Solid gold bracelet from Pipea (Mures County)
Solid Dacian gold bracelet from Pipea (Mures County)
Solid Dacian gold bracelet one end coiled into spiral disks
Dacian bracelets with one and two coils-shape ends Sighetu Marmaţiei (?)
Dacian quadrangular and crenelated bracelets Sighetu Marmaţiei (?)
Dacian twisted bracelets and torques