Comments on Maria Panum Baastrup’s Invitation systems and identification in Late Iron Age southern Scandinavia

Authors

  • Margrethe Watt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2016.1202658

Keywords:

Gold foil figures, amulets, die (patrix), central place, iconography

Abstract

The article provides some basic facts and updates on the gold foil figures and also questions certain aspects of Baastrups interpretation. Attention is drawn to the importance of the complex iconographic content of the gold foils.

Author Biography

Margrethe Watt

Bornholms Museum, Rønne, Denmark

References

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[von] Melle, I.A., 1725. Commentatiuncula de simulacris aureis, quae in Boringholmia Maris Balthici insula, agris eruuntur. Lübeck: Typis Io. Nicolai Thvnii.

Watt, M., 2015a. A Christian ‘fingerprint’ on 6th century south Scandinavian iconography? In: W. Heizmann and S. Oehrl, eds. Bilddenkmäler zur germanischen Götter- und Heldensage. Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 91, Berlin/Boston: Walther de Gruyter GmbH. 153–180.

Watt, M., 2015b. ‘Christian’ gestures and fertility cult(?) reflected in the iconography of 6th century Southern Scandinavia. In: C. Rühmann and V. Brieske, eds. Dying gods – religious beliefs in northern and eastern Europe in the time of Christianisation. Neue Studien zur Sachsenforschung Band 5, Hannover: Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum. 177–190.

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Published

2016-11-01

How to Cite

Watt, M. (2016). Comments on Maria Panum Baastrup’s Invitation systems and identification in Late Iron Age southern Scandinavia. Danish Journal of Archaeology, 5, 86–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2016.1202658

Issue

Vol. 5 (2016)

Section

Debate Article

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