EQUESTRIAN EQUIPMENT OF THE GREAT MIGRATION OF NATIONS PERIOD FROM SÖSDALAAND ITS PONTO-DANUBE PARALLELS
Конское снаряжение эпохи Великого переселения народов из Сёсдалы и его понто-дунайские параллели
Résumé
A group of harness ornaments, with an engraved or stamped decoration, close to the discovery of Sösdala, is attested in the “princely” context of the Hun era in Central and Eastern Europe. These are the tombs, treasures and isolated discoveries from Jakuszowice, Kačin, Untersiebenbrunn, Bar and Coşoveni de Jos, both in nomadic and sedentary environments. These ornaments have common features, but each of them has specifi cities, and was probably crafted on demand. This harness, with engraved and stamped decoration, is part of a large batch of items, usually grouped under the name of Sösdala style, although the use of this term remains subject to discussion. The type of harness mentioned above is attested in a large area from the Middle-Danube to the region of Dnieper-right bank. The Scandinavian harness ornaments and those of Central and Eastern Europe do not form the same stylistic group, but have the same Roman prototypes and are two parallel lines of the shared prestigious fashion among barbaric military elites. Thus, we can see that both the Scandinavian and continental harness parts with stamped decorations represent two parallel lines of development of the equestrian equipment with Roman prototypes. Their important place in the «princely» ritual is obvious and, most likely, due to Eastern cultural infl uences, from the steppe and Eastern Germanic environment.
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