Psalii din corn descoperite în aşezări ale culturii Babadag din nordul Dobrogei
Antler cheek-pieces discovered in the Babadag culture settlements from Northern Dobrogea

Summary/Abstract: The article presents 16 antler cheek-pieces discovered in Northern Dobrogea in contexts that belong to the beginning of First Iron Age (Babadag culture). With this occasion the artifacts were analyzed technologically, typologically and chronologically. This way, it was possible to observe the preference for brow tine of a red-deer antler and rarely from roe deer antler. All entire exemplaries present three perforations on the same plan, indicating the using of a unitary system of attachment to the bridle, differences existing in the dimensions of these orifices and the form of the cheek-pieces which determined us to divide the studied psalias in more types. The association of these characteristics with the discovering context indicates at this point that the exemplaries placed in a.3 and b.2 types are earlier than those placed in a.1-2 and b1 types.

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