Title: Tracing medieval maces of Romania : evaluation of the Medieval Mace Heads from the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest (Romania)
Variant title:
- Po stopách stredovekých palcátov Rumunska : vyhodnotenie stredovekých hlavíc palcátov z Národného múzea rumunskej histórie v Bukurešti (Rumunsko)
Source document: Archaeologia historica. 2024, vol. 49, iss. 1, pp. 309-342
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309-342
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ISSN0231-5823 (print)2336-4386 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/AH2024-1-12
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.80167
Type: Article
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Summary language
License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International
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Abstract(s)
During research (since 2018) in the medieval part of the depository of the Department of Archaeology in the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest, the authors of the article gathered the assemblage of seven mace heads and one whole mace. Exactly half of all the specimens (50 %, four items) come from an unknown place of discovery. The rest originated in three historical regions of Romania – Dobruja, Moldavia and Bukovina. Six out of eight mace heads / maces have not been published yet and the two published specimens have not been assessed satisfactorily. The aforementioned mace heads and mace date from the Early Middle Ages to the Late Middle Ages, or even the Early Modern Age. The authors of the article carried out the classification and chronological evaluation of the examined mace heads and mace and look for their analogies. They also focus on iron and non-ferrous metals applied to these mace heads through the prism of their radiographic and spectroscopic analyses.
Počas výskumu (od roku 2018) v stredovekej časti depozitára Oddelenia archeológie Národného múzea rumunskej histórie v Bukurešti autori článku zozbierali súbor siedmich hlavíc palcátov a jedného celého palcátu. Presne polovica všetkých exemplárov (50 %, 4 ks) však nemá známe miesto svojho nálezu. Zvyšok má pôvod v troch historických oblastiach Rumunska – Dobrudži, Moldavsku a Bukovine. Z ôsmich hlavíc palcátov / palcátov nebolo doteraz publikovaných šesť a ani dva už publikované exempláre neboli zatiaľ uspokojivo vyhodnotené. Uvedené hlavice palcátov a celý palcát môžeme datovať od raného do neskorého stredoveku, prípadne až do raného novoveku. Autori článku predkladajú klasifikačné a chronologické vyhodnotenie skúmaných hlavíc palcátov a palcátu a pokúšajú sa nájsť aj ich analógie. Posudzujú tiež i železo a farebné kovy použité pri ich výrobe, a to cez prizmu ich rádiografických a spektroskopických analýz.
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