Department: Archaeology department

Inventory number: 13992

Artefact's name: Bracelet

Material: Silver

Method of manufacture: Hammering

Decoration type: Excision

Preservation: Very good

Restauration: Restored

Completeness: Complete

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Diameter (mm): 66

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Epoque: Dacian

Culture: Classic

Period:

Absolute chronology: I century B.C.

Country: Romania

District: Hunedoara

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Discovery findspot: Bănița

Condition of discovery: Archaeological excavation

Discovery type: Other

Made of silver sheet, through hammering, on a resin or pitch core and has been bent such that the bracelet has received a tubular shape. In the median area the body is trapezoidal in section. The ends of the bracelet are trumpet-shaped like and have been covered with a silver sheet. The ornaments of the two ends consist in two pairs of relief prominences. The prominences are decorated also with incised lines. These incised lines, placed in zigzag and limited by other lines and points are also met on the braceletïżœs ends.

Inscription:

O. Floca, M. Macrea, O. Floca, N. Lupu, I. Berciu, Cetăți dacice și așezări dacice din sud-vestul Transilvaniei, București, 1966, p.31, fig. 12; K. Horedt, ïin Dacia, N.S., XVII, 1973, p. 139; I. Miclea, R. Florescu, Geto-dacii, București, 1960, p. 63, fig. 366; H. Daicoviciu, R. Florescu, R. Florescu, H. Daicoviciu, L. Roïżœu, Dicționar enciclopedic de artă veche a României, București 1980, p. 57; Fl. Medeleïżœ, ïin Simposia Thracologica 9, 1992, p. 226; idem, din Analele Banatului, III, 1994, p. 193; A.Rustoiu, Metalurgia bronzului la daci, București, 1996, p. 100, 48, 1, 116, 1; idem, ïżœber den silberarmring von Bïżœniïżœa (Kr. Hunedoara), ïin vol. Omaggio a Dinu Adameșteanu, Cuj-Napoca 1996, p. 121-132.

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