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English: Horse harness forehead pendant from the hill grave of Veszkény
  • District of Györ-Moson-Sopron, Hungary

Peltate pendant with eyelet, cast in silver and gilded. The pendant features a chip carved decoration of two opposed bird heads, positioned alongside a human mask. The pendant was found in the hill grave of Veszkény.

According to entries in the recorded minutes of the Sopron Archaeological Society, there was a hill roughly 7 meters high at the discovery site as late as 1870. Two human skeletons as well as horse bones and golden buckles had been found at a depth of 2 meters in the middle of the hill. A completely certain localization of the discovery spot is no longer possible today. Taken together, the destroyed double burial and the finds, which belong to two horse harnesses, suggest that this was a leading Lombard figure.

  • 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 Hungarian National Museum, Budapest.
Deutsch: Pferdegeschirr-Stirnanhänger vom Hügelgrab von Veszkény
  • Komitat Györ-Moson-Sopron, Ungarn

Peltaförmiger Stirnanhänger mit Öse, aus Silber gegossen und vergoldet. Der Anhänger weist eine Kerbschnittverzierung aus zwei antithetisch, neben einer menschlichen Maske angeordneten Vogelköpfen auf. Den Anhänger barg das Hügelgrab von Veszkény.

Nach Eintragungen im Protokollbuch der Soproner Archäologischen Gesellschaft erhob sich an der Fundstelle noch bis 1870 ein ca. 7 m hoher Hügel. In der Hügelmitte waren in ca. 2 m Tiefe zwei menschliche Skelette sowie Pferdeknochen und goldene Schnallen gefunden worden. Eine vollständige gesicherte Lokalisierung der Fundstelle ist heute nicht mehr möglich. Die Funde, die zu zwei Pferdegeschirren gehören, weisen gemeinsam mit der zerstörten Doppelbestattung auf eine führende langobardische Persönlichkeit hin.

  • Exponat in der Ausstellung „Die Langobarden. Das Ende der Völkerwanderung“ vom 22.08.2008-11.01.2009 im Rheinischen LandesMuseum Bonn. Leihgabe aus dem Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Budapest.
Date first half to mid-6th century
date QS:P,+550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
/ 1. Hälfte bis Mitte 6. Jahrhundert
Source Own work
Author James Steakley

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