Vol. 2024 (2024): Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae
From Local to Microregional and Beyond. Papers of the session held at the 28th EAA Annual Meeting in Budapest

‘Nitra-type’ cast earrings in the Middle and Lower Danube region

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  • Natália Gerthoferová
Natália Gerthoferová
Department of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54640/CAH.2024.193

Published 2024-12-19

Keywords

  • separately cast pendant,
  • Nitra-Lupka,
  • Northern Bulgaria,
  • Post-Great Moravian Period,
  • 9th–10th centuries

How to Cite

Gerthoferová, N. (2024). ‘Nitra-type’ cast earrings in the Middle and Lower Danube region. Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae, 2024, 193–205. https://doi.org/10.54640/CAH.2024.193

Abstract

The study reopens the question of ‘Nitra-type’ cast earrings by overviewing and analysing their origin, dating, and spatial distribution through comparing the finds from the Middle and the Lower Danube Region. These earrings were spread over a wide area in the Lower Danube Region, where the type emerged; they remained in fashion from the mid-9th to the end of the 10th century. There is evidence of their local production in this area. In the Middle Danube Region, they concentrated around the post-Great Moravian centres, mainly Nitra, where they were in vogue for a relatively short period from the end of the 9th to the mid-10th century. The ‘Nitra-type’ cast earrings indicate not only contacts between the territories of the First Bulgarian State and the area of Nitra but also the migration and settlement of people from the former.

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