Fitz Jenő (szerk.): The Celts in Central Europe - István Király Múzeum közelményei. A. sorozat 20. A Pannon konferenciák aktái 2. (Székesfehérvár, 1975)
J. V. S. Megaw: The orientelizing theme in early celtic art: East or West
The griffons of seventh century Etruscan work recall the important links between Etruria and the ,situla’ style centred on Este(67) although it is the later form of Greek griffon with wide-open beak of c. 600 BC and after which is particularly important for our purpose. O.-H. Frey has drawn attention to an incised vase from Veii, unfortunately now lost, of c. 600 BC date(68) (fig. -5-6) which has good sickle-BC. J. Near Eastern Studies, XIX, I960, 1 — 14. See also on this general topic Ellen L. Kohler, Phrygian animal style and nomadic art. (Ed.) M. J. Mellink, Dark Ages and nomads c. 1000 BC. Istanbul, 1964, 58-62.' 66) Information and illustration from M. Pierre Gros École française de Rome; Cf. Ch. Goudineau, Chronique. Mélanges d’Arch. et d’Histoire (Rome) LXXIX, 1967, 392. For fourth-century Attic representations of sickle-winged heraldic monsters see II. Lusche y, Zar Wiederkehr archaische Bildzeichen in der attischen Grabmalkunst des I. Jahrhunderts r. Chr. (Ed.) R. Lullies, Nette Beiträge zur Klassischen Altertumswissenschaft = Festschrift Bernhard Schweitzer. Stuttgart 1954, 213-55. (67) Cf. O.-H. Frey, Der Ostalpenraum und die Antike Welt in der frühen Eisenzeit. Germania, XLIV, 1966, 60 ff. wing griffons and sphinxes and also a detail totally absentifrom ,situla’ art, a potnia theron supported by two crouching griffons, which, after all, despite its Celtic querkiness, is precisely what Stupava represents. The frontal facing winged lions are not only on such pieces as the Veii vase but also on actual situlae such as Este, Boldù-Dolfin I(69) (fig. 7); one can see here perhaps not so much an ancestral but again a parallel variation on orientalizing archetypes to that represented by the ,lion’ of the Dürkheim gold strip (70) (Pl. VI,1) and perhaps even the Chÿnovsky Háj. Prague Maskenfibel, (Pl. VI,2) a piece closely related to Maskenfibeln of the Oberwittighausen type centred on southern Germany(71) (Pl. VI,3). We may also note here the incised hucche.ro ware friezes whose clean-shaven and profile sphinx heads have many of the characteristics of Celtic physiognomy(72) (fig. 8) — as foundgain on the Hallstatt (68) O.-H. Frey, o. c., in n. 60, 65 and Abb. 36. (69) O.-H. Frey, o. c., in n. 60, nr. 36. (70) ECA, no. 27. (71) APIA, no. 90; J. V. S. Megaw, o. c., World Arch., III/3, 1972, 285 ff. and fig. 16. (72) Cf. O.-H. Frey, o. c., Germania, XLIV, 54 and Abb. 7. 23 Fig. 7 — 8:7 = Este, Boldu-Dolfin I. Detail of situla; 8 = Detail of bucchero frieze.
