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
Sword Total length. 92 cm. Total length of hilt. 10 cm. Breadth of blade. 5.6 cm. Mark. Half-moon-shaped mark on the right side of the blade. Folded in three. Grave goods See Cat. no. 132. Literature. See Cat. no. 132. Literature. Roedriger (1904) 350 ff, Figs 1-17; Déchelette (1927) 919, Fig. 387; Parvan (1926) Fig. 349; Hunyady (1942-44) Fig. 178; Hunyady (1957) 233 f; De Navarro (1959) 90, note 22; Todorovic (1965) Figs 2-3, 6; Petres (1968) 36, 38, Pl. V.7; De Navarro (1972) 137, 170, 250, 289 (listing six spearheads); Todorovic" (1974) Figs 34, 64, 74, 77; GuStin-Pauli (1984) 121 ff, Fig. 3, Pis 5.1-5, 6, 7.1-2. 132. ODÉACI/HÓDSÁG (Voivodina, Serbia). Scabbard with its sword. From a cremation grave with a chariot burial. SMG, inv. no. 1060 (PL 121.2). Scabbard Only the upper part of the scabbard has survived. Present maximum length. Cca 16 cm. Reconstructed length. 78 cm. Breadth. 4.7 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , high campanulate variety, 1.8 cm. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. Bilateral, Y-type on the reverse, a bar with three knobs on the front plate. Loop. Type HIB, 1.4 cm long by 2 cm broad. Loopplates. Shield-shaped, with protruding rivets. Chape-end. Missing. Sword Total length. 92 cm. Total length of hilt. 14 cm. Breadth of blade. 4.6 cm. Hiltend. Fits to a high campanulate mouth. The tang is surmounted by a disc-button. Mark. Anthropomorphic stamp, a human head in profile resembling coin portraits on the right side of the blade. Folded in three. Grave goods Shield-boss, band-shaped (length, 16.5 cm, breadth, 31 cm); willow-leaf-shaped spearhead with marked midrib (length, 54 cm, length of socket, 18 cm, length of blade, 4 cm); bay-leaf-shaped spearhead with midrib (length, 49.5 cm, length of socket, 7.5 cm, breadth of blade, 9 cm); spearhead, folded in three (present length, 26.7 cm, reconstructed length, 48 cm, length of socket, 12.8 cm, breadth of blade, 8 cm); spearhead, folded in two (present length, 27 cm, length of socket, 19 cm); lower half of a spearhead (present length of socket, 12 cm, breadth of blade, 6.5 cm); iron tool for woodworking with long socket and iron tang (described also as a tent-pole, a broken spearhead, or a spear butt; length, 35 cm, length of socket and tang, 27 cm, breadth of blade, 6 cm); iron knife (length, 19.3 cm, breadth, 4.2 cm); shears (length, 25 cm); iron armring with overlapping terminals; horse-bit; parts of a chariot, fragments of a nave-band and a tire; urn. La Tène C 2 . 133. OSIJEK /ESZÉK (Slavonia, Croatia). Scabbard with its sword. Cremation grave 29. OSM, inv. no. 7052 (PL 122). Scabbard Length. 73.3 cm. Breadth. 5 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , subcampanulate variety, 0.9 cm, with upper border type. Midrib. Less prominent. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. None. Loop. Type IA, band-shaped, 2.1 cm long by 0.5 cm broad. Loop-plates. Round. Chape-clamps, chape-bridge. None. Chape-end. Missing (?). Design, lai; Nav. I. Sword Total length. 85.5 cm. Total length of hilt. 12.2 cm. Breadth of blade. 4.4 cm. Hilt-end. Fits to a normal campanulate mouth. The tang has a straight end. Folded in two. Grave goods Spearhead (length, 21.8 cm, length of socket, 5.5 cm, Rapin's Type la "forme classique"); twinned shield boss (Domaradzki's Type IA); shield handle with disc-headed rivet on each side; central cover-plate for the midrib; bronze fibula with chains and knob-decorated bent-back foot, external, six-coiled springmechanism (OSM, inv. no. 7058-7063). La Tène B 2 . Literature. Spajic (1962) 40 f, Pis XVI-XVII; BoSic (1981) 324, 327, PL 6.1-4 (assigned to Beograd phase 1, La Tène B 2 ); GuStin (1982) 193, 198, Fig. 2; Szabó (1989b) 124 f, Fig. 3.1. 134. OSIJEK /ESZÉK (Slavonia, Croatia). Scabbard with its sword. Inhumation grave 33. OSM, inv. no. 7245-7246 (PL 120.3) Scabbard Only the upper part of the front plate has survived. Present maximum length. Cca 15.6 cm. Breadth. 4.5 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , subcampanulate variety, 0.8 cm, lower border Type % single wavy line. Midrib. None. Ornamentation, lbi; SSS.
