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)
56. Anthropomorphic dagger hilt from Dinnyés. 3rd centwy B.C. 57. Clay kantharos from Kosd. Earlier 3rd century B.C. jewellery decorated with pseudo-filigree, such as fibulae (Bölcske), bracelets (Pélpuszta) and belt clasps (Kosd) produced in local La Tène workshops, were inspired by articles with genuine filigree decoration. The cultural impacts from the Balkans were mediated to the Celts of the Carpathian Basin by the Scordiscans. The so-called astragalus belts illustrate how these cultural impacts spread: the Scordiscans adopted this belt from the Pannons and then disseminated it among their northern neighbours (e.g. the belt from the Kosd cemetery). The La Tène pottery workshops in the Middle Danube region ingeniously drew from many different traditions. Together with the kantharoi mentioned above, the vases decorated with relief and, more rarely, with incised patterns form a distinct group among the Celtic pottery wares of the Late Iron Age. Vessel handles resembling human figures bending over backwards (Rozvágy, Kosd; Fig. 59) can be traced to Italo-Etruscan prototypes; the Danubian Celts apparently adopted this motif from the Italian Boii. Although the animal combat scene on the shoulder of the Lábatlan um has a Scythian ancestry (Fig. 60), the Celtic potter transformed the original design in a geometric spirit. The ultimate result was not a CelticScythian mixed style, but an ingenious blend of motifs drawn from a wide array of artistic styles. This creativity is quite apparent in the vessels provided with bull and ram headed handles, which include both kantharoi of Balkanic origin (Kosd) and one-handled jugs harking back to Scythian prototypes (Kosd, Mátraszőlős; Fig. 61). The bronze figurine depicting a roe turning its head is another unmistakably Celtic creation inspired by steppean art (Fig. 62). The appearance of boot shaped clay vessels in the Carpathian Basin (Kosd) can be explained by contact with the Germanic world to the north. 17. COINAGE AND THE SZÁRAZD-REGÖLY HOARD The origins of coin minting and a monetary economy, which contributed to the fundamental transformation of Celtic society, can be traced to the time of the Balkanic migrations. This is borne out by the archaeological record:
