ARHEOLOŠKI VESTNIK

Inštitut za arheologijo  ZRC SAZU

ARHEOLOŠKI VESTNIK 59, 2008

Paul GLEIRSCHER:

The grave of a sword bearer from the site of Napoleonswiese above Warmbad Villach.
Supplementary information about supposedly lost vessels
(Zum Grab des Schwertträgers von der Napoleonswiese über Warmbad Villach
Ein Nachtrag einschließlich drei, der verschollen geglaubten Gefäße)

Abstract

The objects from the well-known tumulus burial of a man with a sword and a woman at Warmbad Villach, excavated by Felix von Luschan in 1871, had seemed to be lost completely, until the discovery of the bronze material in the storerooms of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte in Berlin by Louis Nebelsick in the 1990s. Together with Karl Kaus, he studied the artifacts. The four pots – all of them quite similar and without any decoration – were also still supposed to be lost, although three of them were exhibited in the Museum der Stadt Villach (1) and in the Landesmuseum für Kärnten (2) and were published several times. They are presented and discussed in detail in this article. The article further emphasises arguments for dating the burial to the (late) Hallstatt B3 period (Ljubljana IIa), ca. 800 BC.

Keywords: Austria, Carinthia, Warmbad Villach, Early Iron Age, tumulus grave with sword, pottery

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