Nutria events

Iron Age Dolenjska (lecture by Dr. Borut Kriz) Železnodobna Dolenjska (predavanje dr. Boruta Križa)

ethnology lecture

During the week we celebrate culture, we invite you to join us in our activities!

The day before the Slovenian cultural holiday, on Friday, 7. in February 2025, the village at 18. we invite uri to lecture Iron Age Dolenjska,

dr. Borut Kriz, archaeologist and Museum saint from the Dolenjska Museum Novo mesto.

The older Iron Age is the time between 8. and 4. century BC. ad., when the rise of the Greek city – states-Polis, their Mediterranean colonies and the Etruscans on the Italic Peninsula occurs. Highly diversified urban life, the beginnings of writing, political science, philosophy, drama, epic and Fine Arts enabled the first great flourishing of European civilization and culture. The rest of the European inhabitants, the 'Barbarians' for the Greeks, tried to follow them and made mainly trade contacts with them. The Greeks offered wine, oil and prestigious crafts and artistic products made of bronze and clay in exchange for slaves, food products and metal, at this time mainly iron.

The inhabitants of present-day Slovenian territory represented an important link in trade. Trade routes of amber from the Baltic, rock salt and copper and gold from the alpine region, as well as metal and pottery products of the steppe peoples from the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula, converged here. As a homemade product, they were joined by still vivid glass jewelry.

Bronze breastplate. New city, Kandia, tomb with armor.

(Older iron age, 7. st. pr. ad.).

In Dolenjska, where, in addition to favorable living conditions, there are also rich surface beds of Limonite iron ore, iron production has spread.

This new, barely established and precious metal allowed the integration of Dolenjska into European trade flows and the stratification of the prehistoric community with a prominent layer of warriors and princes. On many hills, fortified high-altitude hillforts grew up, on the slopes below them lay extensive burial mounds. The upper class transferred their outward splendor of life further into a grave ritual with extraordinary objects that were buried with the deceased. Amber, glass, bronze, and more rarely gold jewelry accompanied the deceased of Dolenjska to the afterlife, while iron weapons and bronze equipment were grave goods of Warriors. Bronze defensive weapons appear in the rich princely graves-helmets, shields and armor, riding horse equipment, prestigious imported items and metal utensils.

Multicolored glass and Amber berries necklaces.

New Town, chapter field, from different graves.

(Older iron age, 5. – 4. st. pr. ad.).

Among all the outstanding objects, bronze buckets occupy a special place − situlas with a rich, figuratively presented ornament. The artistic creation of the halshat torevts has outgrown only artistically crafted scenes from the life of the Hallstatt aristocracy and with its ambitious language crossed the threshold of the narrative and encroached on the heroic mythological sphere of the common treasury and pantheon of European deities. Situl art products are the highest artistic expression of 'barbaric' Europe during the formation of a unified European civilization and culture, and Dolenjska is one of the design centers.

Bronze figuratively decorated situla.

New town, Kandia, Tomb IV / 3.

(Older Iron Age, 4. st. pr. ad.).

dr. Borut krz

All activities within the Cultural Week at the Notranjska museum are free of charge, no registration is required.

The museum will be open according to the established schedule, from Tuesday to Sunday, between 10. and 17. an hour.

Information

Email: info@notranjski-muzej.si

Tel.no.: +386 (0)5 721 10 90

V tednu, ko praznujemo kulturo vas vabimo, da se nam pridružite na naših aktivnostih!

Dan pred slovenskim kulturnim praznikom, v petek, 7. februarja 2025, vas ob 18. uri vabimo na predavanje Železnodobna Dolenjska,

dr. Boruta Križa, arheologa in muzejskega svetnika iz Dolenjskega muzeja Novo mesto.

Starejša železna doba je čas med 8. in 4. stoletjem pr. n. št., ko pride do vzpona grških mestnih državic – polisov, njihovih sredozemskih kolonij in Etruščanov na Italskem polotoku. Visoko omikano urbano življenje, začetki pisave, politologije, filozofije, dramatike, epike in likovne umetnosti so omogočili prvi veliki razcvet evropske civilizacije in kulture. Ostali evropski prebivalci, za Grke 'barbari', so jim poskušali slediti in z njimi navezovali predvsem trgovske stike. Grki so ponujali vino, olje ter prestižne obrtne in umetniške izdelke iz brona in gline v zameno za sužnje, prehrambene izdelke ter kovino, v tem času predvsem železo.

Prebivalci na današnjem slovenskem ozemlju so predstavljali pomemben člen v trgovini. Tu so se stikale trgovske poti jantarja z Baltika, kamene soli ter bakra in zlata iz alpskega območja ter kovinski in lončni izdelki stepskih ljudstev iz Panonske nižine in Balkanskega polotoka. Kot domač izdelek se jim je pridružil še živopisen steklen nakit.

Bronast prsni oklep. Novo mesto, Kandija, grob z oklepom.

(Starejša železna doba, 7. st. pr. n. št.).

Na Dolenjskem, kjer so poleg ugodnih življenjskih razmer tudi bogata površinska ležišča limonitne železove rude, se je razmaknila pridelava železa.

Ta nova, komaj uveljavljena in dragocena kovina je omogočala vključitev Dolenjske v evropske trgovinske tokove in razslojenost prazgodovinske skupnosti z izstopajočim slojem bojevnikov in knezov. Na številnih gričih so zrasla utrjena višinska gradišča, na pobočjih pod njimi so ležala obsežna gomilna grobišča. Višji sloj je svoj zunanji življenjski blišč prenesel še v grobni ritual z izjemnimi predmeti, ki so bili pokopani skupaj s pokojniki. Jantarni, steklen, bronast, redkeje pa še zlat nakit je v onostranstvo spremljal dolenjske pokojnice, železno orožje in bronasta oprema pa so bili grobni pridatki bojevnikov. V bogatih knežjih grobovih se pojavlja še bronasto obrambno orožje – čelade, ščiti in oklepi, oprema jezdnega konja, prestižni uvoženi predmeti ter kovinsko posodje.

Raznobarvne steklene in jantarne jagode ogrlice.

Novo mesto, Kapiteljska njiva, iz različnih grobov.

(Starejša železna doba, 5. – 4. st. pr. n. št.).

Med vsemi izjemnimi predmeti zavzemajo posebno mesto bronaste vedrice − situle z bogatim, figuralno predstavljenim okrasom. Umetniško ustvarjanje halšatskih torevtov je preraslo zgolj obrtniško izdelane prizore iz življenja halštatske aristokracije in s svojo ambiciozno govorico prestopalo prag pripovedi ter posegajo v herojsko mitološko sfero skupne zakladnice in panteona evropskih božanstev. Situlski umetnostni izdelki so najvišji umetnostni izraz 'barbarske' Evrope v času nastajanja enotne evropske civilizacije in kulture, Dolenjska pa predstavlja eno od oblikovalskih središč.

Bronasta figuralno okrašena situla.

Novo mesto, Kandija, grob IV/3.

(Starejša železna doba, 4. st. pr. n. št.).

dr. Borut Križ

Vse aktivnosti v okviru Tedna kulture v Notranjskem muzeju so brezplačne, prijave niso potrebne.

Muzej bo odprt po ustaljenem urniku, od torke do nedelje, med 10. in 17. uro.

INFORMACIJE

Email: info@notranjski-muzej.si

Tel.št.: +386 (0)5 721 10 90

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Location: Kolodvorska cesta 3, 6230 Postojna