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

Fig. 5 a, b — 6: Veil. Details of incised decoration on vase.

,wave pattern’ which though found elsewhere on western Early La Tène objects must surely again reflect southern, perhaps Apulian pattern-books(61).

A final word on the griffons of Stupava; griffons have a long life in the heraldry of oriental and orientalizing art and there is perhaps little to be gained from putting forward one candidate or another, east or west, for the ultimate antecedents for either Stupava or two other griffon-pairs, those on the spring-plate of, once more, the Parsberg brooch (Pl. IV,1) and those again flanking a human head on the top of the Weiskirchen, Kr. Merzig-Wadern, gr. I belt-plaque(62) (Pl. IV,2). The sickle-shaped wings of Stupava are certainly early features in Graeco- Etruscan orientalizing art (as exemplified in the West Greek ivories from Markung Asperg)(63) (PI. I V,3— 4) and contrast with the full-flighted wings of

((il) Cf.J. V. S. Megaw, o. c., PZ, XLIII-XLIV, 1905 — 66, 153 — 4 and Taf. 4:6 — 7.

(62) EC A, no. 350; AEIA, no. 62.

(63) I. Strom, o. c., in n. 45, 208 ff. Sickle-winged sphinxes occur also (presumably mid-sixth century) at Treben ifit ü ; Ljubiăa Popovic, Katalog nahiza iz

the fierce beasts depicted by Greek artists of the fourth-century BC working for the Scythians as in gold work from the Kul Oba and Bolshaia Bliznitsa barrows(64) (Pl. IV,6). These Greek griffons seem much closer to early first millennium BC Anatolian gold such as the Ziwiye fragments than anything in the area of our particular concern(65) (Pl. IV,6). Sickle wings reoccur in the west down the centuries and in Italy last through to early imperial times; they can be seen on earlier first-century AD Campanian terracotta plaques from Bolsena(<ui) (PI. V,l).

nekropole kod TrebeniSta, Antika I, Narodni Muzej Beograd 1956, nos. 39 — 41; see here PI. V:4. For Markung Asperg see H.-V. IIerrmann, o. c., in n. 44 and Taf. 66:1 ; Sickle-wings may also be noted on Phrygian ivories from Gordion of the eighth century: R. S. Younk, The Gordion camping of 1959: Preliminary report. AJA, LXIV, 1960, 240 and pi. 60, fig. 25.

(64) Cf. M. I. Artamonov, Treasures from Scythian tombs. London, 1969, Pis. 236 — 46, 284 — 94.

(65) Helen J. Kantor, A fragment of a gold applique from Ziwiye and some remarks on the artistic traditions of Armenia and Iran during early first millennium