The bird of prey hunts a hare/quadruped. A new motif in the frame of a belt fitting of a Byzantine-Late Avar Khaganate type from South Moravia, Czech Republic

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Profantová, Naďa
The bird of prey hunts a hare/quadruped. A new motif in the frame of a belt fitting of a Byzantine-Late Avar Khaganate type from South Moravia, Czech Republic.
Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt. Roč. 52, č. 3 (2022), s. 451-459. ISSN 0342-734X
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA18-00477S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985912
Klíčová slova: Moravia * Early Middle Ages * elites * bird of prey * Byzantine product * belt fitting
Obor OECD: Archaeology
Impakt faktor: 0.2, rok: 2022
Způsob publikování: Open access s časovým embargem
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ak/article/view/96442/91232

The paper analyses a new find of a white-metal belt fitting with the motif “bird of prey hunts a hare” from South Moravia. The fitting of Byzantine origin (with Byzantine clasps?) has only one analogy in the Carpathian Basin, and a similar depiction was on the silver belt set in Fotovizh (Sumy obl./UA). In this depot were eight pieces of main fittings, dated to the middle of the 8th century. In the same region as our find, in Moravský Svätý Ján (okr. Senica/CZ), was found a hoard/depot with a strap-end with a depiction of a man and a bird of prey, probably a falcon, from the same time. It is a local product. The local elites used self-affirming symbols of Byzantine-Late Avar type, whereby the Byzantine originals were copied or imitated.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0334636