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
104. BRE^ICE (Slovenia). Scabbard with its sword. Cremation burial 2. BPM, inv. no. 276-280 (PL 101). Scabbard Fragmented in ten. Present maximum length of ornamented upper part. 10 cm. Breadth. 5.7 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , subcampanulate variety, 1.2 cm. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Front over back (?). Reinforce. Probably frontal, two holes indicate the place of the two discs. Loop. Type IIIA, 1.5 cm long by 1.5 cm broad. Loop-plates. Shield-shaped, decorated. The lower part of the scabbard is missing. Design. 2ai+5; HSS, phase 2. Sword Total length. 80.8 cm. Total length of hilt. 10.8 cm. Breadth of blade. 5.6 cm. The tang is surmounted by a knob. Grave goods Twisted sword chain; band-shaped shield boss; urn. La Tène Ci. Literature. GuStin (1977) 82, 90, PI. 7.1-4; 3 (assigned to Mokronog phase 2); Guätin (1982) Fig. 3; GuStin (1983a) 40, Figs 1-2. 105. BREÍ1ICE (Slovenia). Scabbard with its sword. Cremation grave 6 (cart-burial). BPM (Pis 102.2, 103-104). Scabbard Length. Cca 78.5 cm. Breadth. 4.5 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , normal campanulate variety. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. Frontal form, with two discs connected with a bar. Loop. Type IC, arched, 1.5 cm long by 1.8 cm broad. Loop-plates. Rounded. Chape-clamps. Round. Chapebridge. Straight, the lower edge is arched. Chape-end. The point is missing, it was probably of Type Ai, with in-pointed finials. Present maximum length of chape. 18 cm. Design. 2a 2 ; HSS, phase 2. Sword Total length. 90.3 cm. Total length of hilt. 10.6 cm. Breadth of blade. 4.4 cm. Folded in two. Grave goods Twisted sword chain; " Hiebmesser" (length, 33.8 cm); three fibulae with bent-back foot, two have an internal cord, the third an external cord, all are incomplete (length, 12.3 cm, 6.3 cm, 5 cm); various parts of a two-wheeled cart; linch pins. La Tène Ci. Literature. Guátin (1983) 42 (assigned to Mokronog phase 2, La Tène C x ); Guätin-Paufi (1984) 115 ff, 131, Fig. 1, Pis 1-2. 106. BRE^ICE (Slovenia). Scabbard with its sword. Grave 47. BPM, 1399 (PI. 102.1). Scabbard Mouth. Subtriangular form. Midrib. Less prominent. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. Frontal (?) reinforce of two small, domed discs connected with a bar. The reinforce is ornamented with triskels and S-lines. Design. lai+2bi; Nav. Ill + HSS, phase 2. Sword Hilt-end. Ornamented with wavy lines. Literature. Keltoi, 38 f, Fig. 8. 107. DALJ/DÁLYA (Slavonia, Croatia.) Scabbard with its sword. From a cremation grave. BMVF, (PL 105.2). Scabbard Mouth. Type A 2 , subcampanulate variety. Midrib. Less prominent. Overlaps. ?. Reinforce. Front plate, a bar connecting two domed, decorated discs; lower border, horizontal plain line flanked by a wavy line and a row of arcs. Loop, loop-plates. ?. Chape-end. Missing. Design, lai; triskels on the reinforce discs. Sword Hilt-end. Fits to a subcampanulate mouth. Two flat discs on the tang. Folded in three. Grave goods See Cat.no. 108. Literature. Hunyady (1942-44) 13; Hunyady (1957) 232; Filip (1956) 135, Fig. 42.1, 8 (sword); MajnaricPandáSic (1970) 126 f (findspot); GuStin (1984) 353 (findspot). 108. DALJ/DÁLYA (Slavonia, Croatia.) Spearhead. From a cremation grave. BMVF (PL 105.1). Spearhead Bay-leaf-shaped blade, prominent midrib. Incised HSS ornamentation on the socket. Rapin's Type lb, "forme classique à douille moyenne" . Folded in two. Grave goods Scabbard with its sword (Cat. no. 107); twisted, punched sword chain; knife; iron fibula with bent-back foot. La Tène Ci.
