Kaján Imre (szerk.): Zalai Múzeum 23. (Zalaegerszeg, 2017)

Ilon Gábor: Egy kora vaskori préselő minta Gősfa határából. In memoriam Horváth László (1945–2015)

Egy kora vaskori préselő minta Gösfa határából

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An early Iron Age mold from Gősfa, Fásdi-hegy (western Hungary)

In memóriám László Horváth (1945 - 2015)

There is a multi-period site in the outskirts of Gősfa (Zala County) (Fig 1). It was discovered during systematic field survey in the spring of 2014, while an intresting artifact was collected.

This special artifact is a mold. There are two lense- like recesses surrounded by small holes on both sides of the fired clay slab. The resulting molding sheet is a circular rosette motif, with a diameter of about 10 mm (Fig 2, la-c).

Similar molds are known from the Croatian coast of the Adriatic sea. The one from Gősfa has a parallel from the suburbium of Nin-Gradina, which looks the same in every detail (Fig 2, 2). Its publishers dated it to the “proto-liburnian” phase of the Iron Age.

Two gold diadems from Slovenia, in grave 27 of tumulus 48 in Sticna (Fig 2, 3) and from grave 5 of tumulus 1 in Spiler, Libna are built up from

the variations of the convex and rosette decorated sheets cast in molds similar to the ones from Gősfa and Nin, soldered together into cross and triangular shapes. These were dated to the 8th century BC. Similar ornaments were popular among the ladies of the Etruscan, Illyrian and Scythian elites between Armenia and Hallstatt (Gustin - Preloznik 2005, 114— 117, 120, 126-127, Abb. 2, Abb. 3/2-4, Abb. 4.8, Abb. 6). Not surprisingly the motif appears on the diadem and golden beads from the Scythian grave in Artánd dated to the middle of the 5th century BC (Kemenczei 1999, 92-93, Abb. 56. Kat. 66/2-3).

1 dated the Gősfa mold to the Hallstatt Period, but without accompanying artifacts (e.g. ceramics) it cannot be dated more precisely within the 8th-6th centuries BC interval.

Translated by Zoltán Fullár