Masivna grivna sa područja Glasinca
Massive bracelet from the Glasinac area

Summary/Abstract: According to the owner’s statement, the massive bracelet, made of the alloy of precious metals, by the statement of the owner, got to the family collections of art pieces during 1960-ties of the last century. Inhabitant of the village gave it to his father, veterinarian. At that time the bracelet was given for expertise to dr. Jozo Petrović, archaeologist of the Lands museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, and overall is dated in the prehistory. Recently this opinion confirmed dr. Zdravko Marić. In the Institute for measuring of Bosnia and Herzegovina, using method of ”roentgen fluorescent analysis”, was determinate combination of metals and given a report, but only for the precious metals. Analysis showed that alloy is very uneven, which is one of the main characteristics of the prehistoric metal objects. Besides precious metals in different percentage (copper, gold, silver, zinc), analysis showed that alloy of the bracelet also contains great percentage of lead, and one slight percentage of nickel. Relation between metals in the alloy implicates to our Bosnian mines that are rich of lead-zinc ores which contains silver and gold: like Srebrenica, Kreševo, Fojnica and Čelebići. Nearness of the Glasinac area to Srebrenica, definitely speaking in a favour of the assumption that bracelet was made of ore from the Srebrenica mines. Bracelet weights 1,8 kg. Its diameter is 15,5 cm. Massive and rich performance and size of this object defines its usage. Actually we are speaking of the bracelet that has character of status, and we presume that it was found in the princely grave, well-known for the Glasinac area. This monumental object is cast in two pieces in the ”Lost form”technique and decorated with combine techniques.

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