Garam Éva szerk.: Between East and West - History of the peoples living in hungarian lands (Guide to the Archaeological Exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum; Budapest, 2005)

HALL 5 - The Celts (450 B.C.-turn of the millennium) (Miklós Szabó)

55. Bronze boar figurine from Bâta. 2nd century B.C. daggers with anthropomorphic or pseudo-anthropomorphic hilt (Dinnyés. Szendrő, Győrszemere; Fig. 56) and the sword from Balassagyarmat, fitted with a scabbard bearing human masks and a human foot on its suspension loop. The jewellery articles decorated in the Plastic Style (fibuale, belts and hollowknobbed bracelets and anklets; Fig. 58) were typical grave goods of male and female burials during the 3rd century B.C. 16. EASTERN CELTIC ART Differing from products typical for the westem Celtic culture province, the finds from the Carpathian Basin show a blend of Hellenistic, Thraco-Illyrian and steppean art. Cultural impacts from the Balkans, reflected for example 81 in the adoption of a Greek vessel form, the kantharos (a two-handled cup) are especially striking. The bronze kantharos deposited in one of the burials of the Szob cemetery was an early Hellenistic product - its clay counterpart from Kosd was made in a local Celtic workshop (Fig. 57). The colourful glass mask beads, such as the ones from Vác and Polgár, were made in northern Pontic workshops; they were highly popular among the Thracians and in the eastem Celtic world. The Celts of the Middle Danube region adopted filigree and granulation from the Thraco-Illyrian culture province in the Balkans. Two fine examples are a gold tore of unknown provenance and the hoards from Szárazd-Regöly. The highly popular cast bronze