Fitz Jenő (szerk.): The Celts in Central Europe - István Király Múzeum közelményei. A. sorozat 20. A Pannon konferenciák aktái 2. (Székesfehérvár, 1975)

J. V. S. Megaw: The orientelizing theme in early celtic art: East or West

It is of course in that early La Tène zone extending from Champagne to the Austrian salt mines that one finds the association in Celtic graves of Etruscan, western and mainland Greek imports. The story commences in the seventh century(26 27) while new finds such as the mould fragment of a handle attachment in the form of a silen head from the Heuneburg(28) underline just how direct were the contacts between Italy and the transalpine Celtic zone(29) ; L. P a u 1 i ’ s

study of the Golasecca culture is important here particularly if recent suggestions as to its at least partially Celtic nature are correct(30). Wider studies have been concerned with establishing a basic ritual connection between the western Celtic area and the sources of the southern imports(31). In passing one should also draw attention to the importance in our period of the Corsican Graeco-Etruscan centre of Aléria (Alalia)(32) with its Motte St.-Valentin

Pig. 2 — 3:2 = Hoppstädten, Ldkr. Birkenfeld, barrow, 2. Detail of sieve rim (after Kilian); 3 — Stupava, dkr. Teplice. ?Beit mount : detail of incised decoration (drawing : F. M. B. Cooke).

(26) F. Schwappach, Stempel des Waldalgesheimstüs an einer Vase aus Sopron-Bécsidomb (West-Ungarn). Hamburger Beiträge zur Arch., 1/2, 1971, esp. Abb. 18- 19.

(27) Cf. for recent literature F.-W. VON Hase, Unbekannte frühetruskische Edelmetall funde mit Maskenköpfen. Hamburger Beiträge zur Arch., III/l, 1973, esp. n. 42. - For fuller discussion see J. V. S. Megaw, The Vir burial. Antiquity, XL, 1966, 38 — 44; F. Fischer, KEIMH AI A: Bemerkungen zur Kultur geschichtl. Interpretation des sogenannten Südimports . . . Germania, LI, 1973, esp. p. 456 ff.

(28) W. Kimmig — O.-W. von Vacono, Zu einem Gussform-Fragment einer etruskischen Bronzekanne von

der Heuneburg a.d. oberen Donau. Germania-, LT,

1973, 72-85.'

(29) Cf. further to the references cited in nn. 9 and 27 see particularly S. Boucher, Trajets terrestres du commerce étrusque aux V- et IV- siècles avant J .-G., RA 1973/1, 79 — 96; H. Reim, Zur Henkelplatte eines attischen Kolonettenkraters vom Uetilberg (Zürich). Germania, XLVI, 1968, 274 — 85; B. Bouloumié, Les oenochoés en bronze du type ,Schnabelkanne’ en France et en Belgique. Gallia, XXXI, 1973, 1 — 35 ; H. Polenz, Zur Schnabelkanne von Oberwallmenach, Loreleykreis. Nassauische Annalen, LXXXII, 1971, esp. 25 ff.; O.-H. Frey, o. c., Celtic art in protohistoric Europe, esp. n. 18.

(30) L. Pauli, Die Golasecca-Kultur und Mitteleuropa. Hamburger Beiträge zur Arch., I/1, 1971.

(31) F. Fischer, o. c., Germania, LI, 1973, 436 — 59.

(32) J.-L. Jehasse, La nécropole préromaine d’Aléria = XXV- suppl. à Gallia, 1973, esp. cat. nos. 1643, 1659-60, 1671, 2011, 2062, 2098.

18