Early celtic rich graves in Bohemia: parallels to aristocracie with the geti and thracians and eastern impact in the rise of the early La Tene art
Early celtic rich graves in Bohemia: parallels to aristocracie with the geti and thracians and eastern impact in the rise of the early La Tene art

Summary/Abstract: Some recent authors, especially Vincent Megaw, started to deny any eastern trajectory in the Early La Tène style, though already Paul Jacobsthal saw indisputable eastern elements there, especially as concerns the trousers, the torques and the field of horse trappings. I tried to add the motif of tête coupé, well-known also from Thrace, the stylisation of animals and the general resemblance in transferring Greek models into the ornamental idioms. Finds of eastern imports in Bohemia and Moravia, probably connected with Scythian raids in these areas, together with the rejection of fully realistic representations of the Greeks, are among the reasons to reconsider this old question. The new finds from SW Slovakia including figurine of a Sphinx have shown that the Early La Tène art existed even in the NW part of the Carpathian cauldron and a number of parallels between Early Celtic, Thracian and Scythian art seems to suggest that the all three artistic provinces had much in common in their general attitude towards sensual reality and in the art of trajectory of Greek models into their own artistic idioms.

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