Pin jewelry pieces from an early 17th century hoard found near Vlădiceasca village, Călăraşi county
Pin jewelry pieces from an early 17th century hoard found near Vlădiceasca village, Călăraşi county

Author(s): Cristiana Tătaru, Tudor Alexandru Martin
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Cultural history, Visual Arts, 17th Century, History of Art
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Wallachia; Transylvania; 16th—17th century; pin jewelry; veil pin; brooch; hoarding
Summary/Abstract: This paper examines five jewelry pieces provided with shafts from the Vlădiceasca hoard, Călăraşi County, Romania. Due to the rarity of iconographical and written sources, as well as the scarcity of this type of jewelry in archeological discoveries, the interpretation of the function of these items is quite difficult to make. In the first part of the article a short description of the hair pins preserved in the Vlădiceasca hoard and the presentation of the most important similar items found in archaeological context in Wallachia and Moldavia are made, in order to gather some function and style characteristics for these pieces. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the catalogue of the five pieces, which are classified according to their stylistic features, while also being compared with similar findings coming especially from the hoards discovered in the Moldavian space. Special attention is paid to the form in which they are published, some of the large pin jewelries being interpreted as brooches or as veil pins.

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