Re: Cymerians?

> Stylistically, the Gundestrup cauldron belongs to the Latenne
> tradition and was manufactured around the 4th century BC. It's
> very similar in design and style to the slightly later Belgic

Rynkeby

> Cauldron and the basic style of the Bavai Vace. The compositional
> styles used on these artifacts are all similar to the Thracian
> Latenne style as seen in the Agighiol helmet for example. Some
> researchers have argued that the Gundestrup was actually

manufactured

> in the Middle Danube region, however this is primarily based on an
> insistence that Denmark was situated outside the Latenne sphere and
> clearly it was not. I believe what is overlooked is the similarity

in

I believe that one popular explanation for the Gundestrup cauldron,
based on its artistic style, is that it was made in Eastern Europe
(by a Thracian artist, I think) for a Celtic client (as it displays
typically Celtic diety types and may contain a pictoral narrative
resembling the Irish Tain Bo Cualgne) and that it might have ended up
in Denmark due to it having been seized in a raid from the territory
of the Celt that comissioned it. Speculative, of course, but
plausible.
-Chris Gwinn