Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The study reopens the question of ‘Nitra-type’ cast earrings by overviewing and analysing their origin, dating, and spatial distribution through comparing the finds from the Middle and the Lower Danube Region. These earrings were spread over a wide area in the Lower Danube Region, where the type emerged; they remained in fashion from the mid-9th to the end of the 10th century. There is evidence of their local production in this area. In the Middle Danube Region, they concentrated around the post-Great Moravian centres, mainly Nitra, where they were in vogue for a relatively short period from the end of the 9th to the mid-10th century. The ‘Nitra-type’ cast earrings indicate not only contacts between the territories of the First Bulgarian State and the area of Nitra but also the migration and settlement of people from the former.
Author: Natália Gerthoferová
Institution: Comenius University Bratislava
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
OpenAlex ID: W4405573894