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

(Pl. 111,1) (59) and that from Koryőany in Moravia (Pl. Ili, 2) with an animal frieze comparable with details of ,situla’ art (PI. Ill,3), the latter in particular the fragment from Matrei in the Brenner(li0). I have previously suggested Dürrnberg — from whence incidentally came several Linsenfluschen — the commercial centre of the Ostgruppe Fürstengräber with its clear links with the Rhineland as the immediate place of origin of the Hallstatt sword and

scabbard. This remarkable site with its evidence not only for contacts with the Celtic north and west but also south to Italy and ultimately Greece, would certainly seem a suitable spot for a craftsman who had at his command both practical experience of the adoption by the Celts of the nomadic fashion for cavalry, the iconography of the ,situlae’, and such clearly western non-representational elements as the plaited zig-zag and interlocking Greek key — the

Fig. I: Matzhausen, Ldkr. Parsberg. Rolled-out stamped and incised decoration on body of Linsenflasche (after

R e i n e c k e).

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(00) Information on the Korycany sherd from Dr. F. Schwappach and Prof. Dr. O.-H. Frey; for Matrei see Frey, Die Enstehung der Situlenkunst. R.-G. Forschungen, XXXI, 1969, 2.

latter also to be found on the Hoppstädten sieve. We must not totally ignore details of style since for example in the discussion of the engraved design of Stupava I believe the ,orientalizing’ element has tended to overshadow consideration of the incised