Szabó Miklós, Petres F. Éva: Decorated weapons on the La Tene Iron Age in the Carpathian Basin. (Inventaria Praehistorica Hungariae 5; Budapest, 1992)
Abbreviations - Ukraine - Yugoslavia
Type A 2 , normal campanulate variety. Midrib. Broad. Overlaps. Back over front. Reinforce. None, an empty band in its place. Loop. Type Ic, arched (?). Loop-plates. Rounded, with two rivets. Chape-clamps. A rosette with triskel motif on the right side, the left one is missing. Chape-bridge. Straight. Chape-end. Missing, reconstructed as Type Ai. Design, lai; Nav. III+HSS, phase 2. Sword Total length. Cca 74 cm. Total length of hilt. 12 cm. Breadth of blade. 5 cm. Hilt end. Fits to a Type A 2 mouth. The squarish tang has a straight terminal. Folded in three. Grave goods Twisted iron sword chain; spearhead with midrib, the socket is encircled with a plastic ring flanked by two incised lines and a row of dots (length, 45 cm); spear butt; shield mounts-, band-shaped shield-boss with two flat, large, disc-headed rivets, shield rim fragments; wire fibula with bent-back foot; fibula with two knobs on the bent-back foot. La Tène Ci. Literature. Todorovic (1968a) 41, Fig. 9; Todorovic (1972) 19, Pis XI.1-4, XII.5-10, LI.l; Todorovic (1974) 104, Fig. 101 (design); BoZic (1981) 327, PI. 10.4 (assigned to Beograd phase 2, La Tène C); Guätin (1984) Fig. 12. 123. KARABURMA (Beograd, Serbia). Scabbard with its sword. Cremation grave 66. BMG, inv. no. 3749 (PL 117.2). Scabbard Fragmented in four. Reconstructed length. 70.3 cm. Breadth. 4.7 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , subcampanulate variety, 1 cm. Midrib. Less prominent. Overlaps. Front over back. Loop. Type II. Loop-plates. Round. Chape-clamps. ?. Chape-bridge. None. Chape-ends. Kosd C. Design, la^ Nav. II. Sword Total length. 79 cm. Total length of hilt. 9.3 cm. Breadth of blade. Cca 4.5 cm. The squarish tang is surmounted by a disc-button. Grave goods Two different sword chains; iron spearhead; band-shaped shield boss with two large, discheaded rivets; two knives; whetstone; bronze wire fibula with ribbed bow, and knob-decorated bent-back foot, the spring-mechanism has an external cord and is six-coiled; urn. La Tène B 2 . Literature. Todorovic (1972) 27 f, Pis XXIV. 1-9, LX.3-4; BoZic (1981) 324, 327, PL 10.1 (assigned to Beograd phase 1, La Tène B 2 ); Petres (1982) 163 f, 171, Fig. 11. 124. KUPINOVO 1 (Srijem, Serbia). Scabbard with its sword. Stray find from the area of a cemetery. ZAM (PL 118.1). Scabbard Mouth. Type A 2 , normal campanulate variety. Midrib. Less prominent. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. Only the left clamp of the frontal (?) reinforce has survived. Design. 2a i5 HSS. Sword Total length. 86 cm. Breadth of blade. 4.6 cm. Literature. Todorovic (1968a) 36, 66, Fig. 15.16; Majnaric-PandSic (1970) 86, 127 ff, PL XIX.l-la; Todorovic (1974) 96, Fig. 75, third right. 125. KUPINOVO 2 (Srijem, Serbia). Scabbard with its sword. Stray find from the area of a cemetery. ZAM (PL 118.2). Scabbard Only the ornamentation of the scabbard is known, since it proved impossible to identify the sword on the basis of the photos publisned by Majnaric-Pandáic. Design. 2b x ; HSS, phase 2. Literature. Todorovic (1968a) 26, 66, Fig. 15.11; Duval (1977a) 126, Fig. 123; Majnaric-Pandzic (1970) Pl. XI.l, 5-8. 126. KUPINOVO 3 (Srijem, Serbia). Sword. Stray find from the area of a cemetery. ZAM inv. no. 15695 (PL 118.3). Sword Total length. 62 cm. Breadth of blade. 4.5 cm. Two flat discs on the squarish tang which is surmounted by a knob taking the shape of a human head. Literature. Majnaric-Pandzic (1970) 85, PL XVIII.3-3a; Megaw-Megaw (1989a) Fig. 186 (assigned to the La Tène Ci). 127. MITROVICA (Srijem) (?) or VOIVODINA (Serbia). Scabbard with its sword. From a disturbed grave. MRGZM, inv. no. 0 1668 (PL 119.1). Scabbard Reconstructed length. Cca 55.7 cm. Reconstructed breadth. Cca 6 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , high campanulate variety, 1.7 cm. Midrib.
