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Silver pendants with Anthropomorphic Representations on the Territory of the Eastern Adriatic Protohistoric Societies

The anthropomorphic representations made in silver can be divided in two groups of objects, each with its own distinctive characteristics, distribution and chronology. In the first or Liburnian group, most likely datable to 3rd-2nd century BC, the representations of women heads have large eyes and lips, and a characteristic neck ornament (necklace or part of dress), with examples on pendants (Baška, Sisak), but also on flat Liburnian brooches (Nin) or a belt buckle (Asseria). The second, Iapodic group is presented by the stylized small heads or full figures on thin silver foil pendants. Based on grave associations from the Una valley cemeteries and the Lički Ribnik hoard and other analogies (Židovar), this group is datable to the last century BC. We found both categories in Sisak, an intermediary point, showing that influences, ideas and objects surely travelled in both directions.

Eastern Adriatic; Liburni; Iapodes; silver pendants; 3rd-1st century BC

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