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

UKRAINE 101. MUKAÖEVO/MUNKÁCS-LOVACSKA (District Mukacevo). Pseudoanthropoid-hilted dagger. Stray find from the Galish-Lovatschka settlement. UOM, inv. no. B3-237/135 (PI. 98). Dagger Iron hilt with iron blade. Projecting knobhead, now damaged. U-shaped arms and legs with median ring moulding. Total length. Cca 32 cm. Total length of hilt. Cca 14 cm. Literature. Lehoczky (1906) 3, Fig. 1; Ebert (1927) 353; Márton (1933) 47, 51; Hunyady (1957) 208 f; Clarke-Hawkes (1955) 209, 220, Pl. XXV.2 (Class D, no. 1); Bidzilija (1964) 92-143; Petres (1979) 175 f. YUGOSLAVIA 102. BATINA/KISKŐSZEG (District Bar anj a/Bar anya, Croatia). Scabbard with its sword. Warrior grave. WNM, inv. no. 37856 (PI. 99). Scabbard The upper part and the chape-end of the scabbard have survived. Present maximum length. Cca 20 cm + cca 18 cm. Breadth. 5.8 cm. Mouth. Type A

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, normal campanulate variety, 1.2 cm upper border is of Type 7, wavy line ornamentation. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Front over back (?). Reinforce. Frontal reinforce, two rings connected with a knobbed bar. Loop. ?. Chape-end. Type Kosd A. Design. 2bi

; HSS, phase 1. Sword Total length. Cca 77 cm. The narrow tang has a straight end. Folded in two. Grave goods Twisted iron sword chain; iron spearhead (Rapin's Type la, "forme classique"); two shield bosses, one is of the twinned type, the other is band-shaped with trilobé wings and a handle with openwork terminals (Rapin's Type IIA, Domaradzki's Group II 1, Db); iron pony-cap helmet. La Tène B

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. Literature. ECA, No. 115, Pis 68-69; VinskiGasparini (1959) PI. 1.3; Todorovic (1968) 66, Fig. 15.4; De Navarro (1972) 85, note 1, 94, 287; Todorovié (1974) 62, 97, Figs 35 (sword and grave goods) and 76 (ornamentation); Schaaff (1974) 171 ff, Fig. 23 (helmet); KKM, Cat. no. 250 (list of foreign lenders); Duval (1977a) 126, Fig. 119; Szabó (1977) 218, Fig. 8a; GuStin (1977) 78 (assigned to Mokronog, phase 2, La Tène C

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); Szabó (1982) 178 f, 185, Fig. 9; GuStin (1984) Suppl. 1; Megaw-Megaw (1989a) 129 f, Fig. 190, left. 103. BRESTOVTK (Serbia). Scabbard with its sword. Cremation burial 1. BNM, inv. no. 8634 (PI. 100). Scabbard Length. 75 cm. Breadth. 4.3 cm. Mouth. Type A

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, subcampanulate variety, 1.5 cm. Midrib. Less prominent. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. None. Loop. Missing. Chapeclamp, chape-bridge. None. Chape-end. Type Ai, with in-pointed finials. Total length of chape. 8.5 cm. Design. la

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; Nav. Ill + HSS, phase 2. Sword Total length. 78.5 cm. Total length of hilt. 12.5 cm. Breadth of blade. 4 cm. Hilt-end. Fits to a subcampanulate mouth, now broken. Grave goods Twisted sword chain; spearhead (length, 45 cm, length of socket, 7.5 cm, breadth of blade, cca 4.8 cm, Rapin's Type lb, "forme classique"); bronze fibula, the bent-back foot widens into a disc with inlaid or coral decoration, the end of the foot overlaps the bow, the pin is missing (length, 3.8 cm); iron fibula, the bent-back foot, now missing, was connected to the bow by a knob at its end, the spring-mechanism has an external cord and is six-coiled (length, 8.8 cm); iron armring; shield boss and rim fragments. La Tène d. Literature. Corovic-Ljubinkovic (1956) 133 f; Krstic (1958-59) 45 ff; KKM, Cat. no. 238 (list of foreign lenders); Bozlé (1981) 333, note 56, 324, Fig. 2, PI. 7.1-6 (assigned to Beograd phase 2, La Tène C); Petres (1982) 166, Fig. 20.