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 Iron Age: The Scythians and the Hallstatt culture (800-450 B.C.) (Tibor Kemenczei)

47. Bronze quiver ornament from Budajenő. 48. Electrum shield ornament from 6th century B.C. Tápiószentmárton. 6th century B.C. 4. ART The articles decorated with animal depictions and animal motifs found in the Great Hungarian Plain and the adjacent regions were used in almost all wakes of life. Every creation of this animal style art had a magical meaning. The craftsmen who made them and the people who used them were fully aware of their symbolism. The communities living in the Great Hungarian Plain did not simply adopt certain elements of the animal style born on the Eurasian steppe, but themselves had a mindset which inspired this art. The bronze quiver ornaments (Mátraterenye, Budajenő; Fig. 47) and the bronze mirrors (Szécsény, Makkfalva) deposited in burials were similarly decorated in the spirit of this animal art. These articles were made in the Greek colony of Olbia according to the Scythian taste. The craftsmen working in the Great Hungarian Plain and Transylvania copied the original Greek products. Other fine creations in the steppean animal style include bronze rattles topped with bull and stag figures (Gernyeszeg, Gyöngyös,