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DOI Artikel:Sztyber, Agata; Woźniak, Mateusz: Monety z cmentarzyska wczesnośredniowiecznego w Modlnicy, stan. 5, gm. Wielka Wieś, pow. krakowski
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22230#0222
AGATA SZTYBER, MATEUSZ WOZNIAK
To datę we know only a handful of examples of multiple silver artefacts
found in early-medieval burials in the territory of Poland: at Grajewo-Prostki,
Gorysławice, Niemcza, Tańsk-Przedborów, Goleniów, and Kałdus.
Arguably, assemblages of this type should be interpreted as nothing morę than
the “obol of the dead,” especially if they have been found in the same locations
within the graves as the single coins, i.e., in or very near the dead man’s hand. In
tum, the differences in ąuantity may have been due to a different approach to these
sort of burial offerings; in this particular case, they would have been quite obvi-
ously dictated by the giver’s materiał affluence.
Translated by Marcin Fijak
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To datę we know only a handful of examples of multiple silver artefacts
found in early-medieval burials in the territory of Poland: at Grajewo-Prostki,
Gorysławice, Niemcza, Tańsk-Przedborów, Goleniów, and Kałdus.
Arguably, assemblages of this type should be interpreted as nothing morę than
the “obol of the dead,” especially if they have been found in the same locations
within the graves as the single coins, i.e., in or very near the dead man’s hand. In
tum, the differences in ąuantity may have been due to a different approach to these
sort of burial offerings; in this particular case, they would have been quite obvi-
ously dictated by the giver’s materiał affluence.
Translated by Marcin Fijak
220