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A Late La Tène Scordiscan sanctuary from Osijek (Eastern Slavonia, Croatia)?

In the territory of Eastern Croatia, characterized during the Late Iron Age by the material legacy of the La Tène culture, the finds attributable to the practice of ritual activities have rarely been documented. The discovery of numerous finds of weaponry and horse gear as well as animal and human bones during an excavation in Osijek in Eastern Slavonia, which are assumed to belong to the remains of a Late La Tène sanctuary of the Scordisci, is of exceptional importance. The sanctuary lay at the southern edge of a prominent settlement of the Scordisci, which was their westernmost centre situated next to the Drava river, lying on the last convenient crossing before its confluence with the Danube. Analogies for the discovered finds have been documented primarily in Late La Tène graves of prominent warriors of the Scordisci and at the site of Veliki Vetren. Sacrifices or gifts were made for presently unknown reasons by the warrior elite in the second half of the 2nd century and during the first half of the 1st century BC (LT D1), most likely to war deities. The practice of ritual activities in Osijek was probably connected with the Late La Tène warrior aristocracy of the Scordisci that represented the basic political and economic power of their society and thereby were also the main agents of various ritual acts through which they laid numerous objects into the graves, but also displayed the strength, influence and power that they wielded.

sanctuary ; Osijek ; Eastern Slavonia ; Scordisci ; Late La Tène ; weaponry ; horse gear ; war deities

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