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Middle La Tène Female Grave LT 22 from the Zvonimirovo cemetery – Where did I get this Fibula?

The Zvonimirovo–Veliko Polje cemetery, not far from Virovitica, is the only systematically researched La Tène cemetery in northern Croatia. The numerous finds date it to the Middle La Tène (LT C2). Aside from warrior graves with weaponry, what stands out are the burials of women with characteristic items of costume, jewellery and everyday use, indicating the different aspects of female identities in the community. The female costume is represented by various forms of iron and bronze belts, Brežice-type buckles, and several different forms of bronze fibulae, the most numerous being fibulae with two spherical knobs and the Zvonimirovo-type fibulae. We have also isolated certain forms of fibulae which are currently represented by only a few or even a single specimen, like the fibula from grave LT 22 with three figure-of- eight loops on the bow. Parallels for the fibula from grave LT 22 have been found only in the northern Carpathian Basin ; the appearance of this fibula at the Zvonimirovo cemetery could be explained by cultural transfers between the different communities living in the Carpathian Basin in the Middle La Tène, but we should not exclude the possibility of the mobility of certain women, which is also indicated by the particular forms of the female costume.

cemetery ; Zvonimirovo ; La Tène culture ; women ; costume ; fibula with figure-of-eight loops on bow ; identity ; cultural transfer ; mobility

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