Bracelets in The "Classical Dacian" Period of The Dacian State
The Dacian silver bracelet is one of the characteristic artworks of this period, and the most representative ornament on them is the snake protome. Dacian bracelets have mainly been thought of as women's adornments but it can not be excluded that some types of bracelets, especially the multi-spirals ones, represented insignia of politico-military and sacerdotal functions and therefore worn by men.
Bracelets became part of the objects that Dacians selected as votive offerings deposited outside settlements. Such offerings have been found in a fountain at Ciolanestii din Deal, Teleorman County, where silver bracelets and vases dated to 2nd or 1st century BC were found, and finds beside a lake in a forest at Contesti, Argeş County, where bracelets, pearls, and a drachma were found.
Types of the La Tene II period (150 BC – 100 AD) include:
- Bracelets with the ends curled back around the bracelet's wire i.e. Cerbal (Hunedoara County) and Remetea (Timis County)
- Bracelets made of multiple twisted wires i.e. at Cerbăl In the La Tène Age, this type appears to have been developed from the twisted types of the Bronze Age IV from Spalnaca.
- Bracelets with double torsade i.e. Cerbăl
- Bracelets made of decorated band with circles and dotted lines i.e. Cerbăl
- Bracelets made of ribbed bar
- Bracelets with single- or multi-spirals terminating with snake heads
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Dacian bracelet from Transylvania; each end is coiled on the circlet's wire itself La Tène III )
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Silver decorated band bracelet from Cerbăl dated to La Tène
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Decorated band hook-and-eye-bracelet Cerbăl dated to La Tène
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Dacian bracelet -Transylvania; Slimnic type (Iron Age II)
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Silver Dacian bracelet from Transylvania
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