Elena Miroššayová – Ladislav Olexa:
Glass Beads from the Hallstatt Period in Eastern Slovakia (Summary)
Finds of glass beads from Eastern Slovakia are recorded on several sites and number of their
finds has grown in the last few years (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1. Sites with finds of glass beads in East
Slovakia.
1 - Cejkov; 2 - Háj; 3 - Michalovce; 4 - Rad; 5 -
Veľký Šariš; 6 - Vojnatina; 7 - Zemplín; 8 - Ždaňa.
An undecorated red-brown bead from the burial ground in
Vojnatina, distr. of Sobrance, from the end of the Bronze age or beginning of
the Hallstatt period belongs to the oldest find. Other specimens belong to the
later or even late Hallstatt Culture period.
Fig. F35. Finds of glass beads. 1 - Veľký Šariš; 2 -
Háj; 3, 4 - Ždaňa (3 - finds from urn, grave 23/06; 4 - burnt beads from grave
25/06).
The largest collection of glass beads of various types comes
from the burial ground in Ždaňa, distr. of Košice-Okolie (Fig. F35: 3, 4; F36:
3-10, 12-15). On the basis of existing finds, this burial ground has been
provisionally dated back to the HD stage (not published). Among the glass beads
from Eastern Slovakia, types chronologically comparable to finds in the
Vekerzug Culture within the Carpathian Basin prevail considerably.
In a wider cultural context, these glass beads can be compared
to the finds from the East Hallstatt sphere. The specimens from
the late Hallstatt settlement in Rad (Fig. F35; F36) rang among rare types with
some analogies in the cultures North and East of the Carpathians.
Fig. F36. Types of glass beads from East Slovakia. 1,
2 - Rad; 3-10, 12-15 - Ždaňa; 11 - Háj.
The question of the Eastern Slovakia beads origin in
relation to the producing workshops’ location remains open for now.
With the Author's permission.(A Szerzőnő engedélyével)
