Glass beads and the prehistoric Liburnians

Abstract

Stakleni nakit u liburnskoj željeznodobnoj kulturi slabije je zastu­pljen, posebno u odnosu na jantarni. Prstenaste staklene perlice imamo u grobu br. 1 iz Nina, datiranom u sredinu 8. st. pr. n. e. Go­dine 1981. objavljena je zanimljiva dvobojna staklena perla s cik-cak dekorativnim motivom, a kulturno je povezana s nalazima staklenog nakita kod Japoda. Jedna je perla istog stila, tj. tamne podloge i ornamenta izvedena žutom staklenom niti, nađena na Gornjem gradu u Zagrebu prilikom zaštitnih iskopavanja deve­desetih godina. Na Budinjaku (Žumberak) slična je perlica bila u jednom grobu u tumulu. Taj je tip žuto ornamentiranih staklenih perlica nazvan „tip Kompolje“ što, između ostalog, implicira nje­govo ishodište na ličkom – japodskom prostoru. Tek u posljed­njim fazama liburnskog željeznog doba (4. – 1. stoljeće pr. n. e.) dolaze perle sa slojevitim višebojnim očima. Nedavno objavljen katalog grobova iz Dragišića1 prikazao je raznolik repertoar sta­klenih perli koje dosad nismo poznavali u liburnskoj nošnji tog vremena.Glass jewelry in the Liburnian Iron Age culture is poorly repre­sented, in particular in comparison to amber jewelry. Annular glass beads were found in grave No. 1 from Nin, dated to the 8th century BC. In 1981 an interesting bichrome glass bead with a decorative zig-zag motif was published and it was associated culturally with the finds of the Iapodic glass jewelry. A bead in the same style, with an ornament executed with a yellow glass thread on dark background was found in Gornji grad in Zagreb in the rescue excavations in the 1990s. A similar bead was recov­ered from a grave in the tumulus in Budinjak (Žumberak). This type of yellow ornamented glass beads was called Kompolje type implying among other things its staring point in the area of Lika-Iapodia. Beads with layered polychrome eyes appear only in the final phases of the Liburnian Iron Age (4th-1st century BC). Recently published catalogue of graves from Dragišić1 presented a diverse repertory of glass beads previously unknown in the Liburnian attire of the time