Dear Dr. Neumaier,

I thing that the persons who can help you are: Alexandra Giumlia-Mair,  Žiga Šmit  and J. Istenič.

The e-mail of Alexandra is:  [email protected]

and that of Smit: [email protected]

With best regards

I.Kuleff

Dear Sir,

thank you very much for your helpful answer.I hope that we will stay in contact.

With best regards

Joachim Neumaier

Hi,

I would recommend:

Peter Turk, Images of Life and Myth. Exhibition Catalogue about Situla Art in Slovenia, Ljubljana 2005.

https://www.academia.edu/2927008/Images_of_Life_and_Myth._Exhibition_Catalogue_about_Situla_Art_in_Slovenia_Ljubljana_2005

And also:

Markus Egg / Rüdiger Lehnert, A fight or an execution? Some observations about the figural decoration of a bronze situla from grave 33 in tumulus III at Kandija in Novo mesto. Arheoloski Vestnik 62, 2011, 231-260.

http://av.zrc-sazu.si/pdf/62/AV_62_2011_Egg.pdf

http://av.zrc-sazu.si/En/62/Egg_AV_62.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290011737_A_fight_or_an_execution_Some_observations_about_the_figural_decoration_of_a_bronze_situla_from_grave_33_in_tumulus_III_at_Kandija_in_Novo_mesto

You find a useful bibliography in:

Dragan Božič, Die Situla von Vače gehörte einem Doppelkammhelmträger. In: Christoph Gutjahr / Georg Tiefengraber (eds.), Beiträge zur Hallstattzeit am Rande der Südostalpen (Rahden / Westf. 2015) pp. 107-115

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285345303_Die_Situla_von_Vace_gehorte_einem_Doppelkammhelmtrager

Best regards,

Stefan Wenzel

Article A fight or an execution? Some observations about the figural...

Chapter Die Situla von Vače gehörte einem Doppelkammhelmträger

Ljubljana, September 29, 2016, 13.16

Dear Mr. Neumaier!

There are two situlae with the mentioned motif, found in male graves of the Dolenjska group of the Hallstatt culture. I know at least two good drawings of the decoration on the Vače situla. One was published one year after its discovery in March 1882 by Dragotin Dežman = Karl Deschmann, curator of the Regional Museum of Carniola (Krainisches Landesmuseum) in Ljubljana, in the Austrian journal Mittheilungen der k.k. Central-Commission 9, 1883, Pl. II and one in the Vače catalogue of France Stare from 1955.

Deschmann 1883

https://www.academia.edu/27981058

Stare 1955

F. Stare, Vače, Arheološki katalogi Slovenije 1, Ljubljana 1955, Suppl. at the end of the book.

http://www.nms.si/images/stories/NMS/PDF/PeterT/1_FranceStare-VAcE_o.pdf

The situla from grave 13/55 at Preloge on Magdalenska gora is well illustrated in the catalogue of the grave finds from this site, kept in the Natural History Museum in Vienna and in the National Museum of Slovenia in Ljubljana.

See S. Tecco Hvala, J. Dular, E. Kocuvan, Železnodobne gomile na Magdalenski gori, Katalogi in monografije 36, Ljubljana 2004, Pl. 85: 17, Suppl. 4.

https://www.academia.edu/16487819

Karl Kromer from Innsbruck named the scenes, in which this motif appears, “Der gemeinsame Umtrunk” (K. Kromer, Das Situlenfest, Situla 20–21, Ljubljana 1980, 237–238), and Robert Schumann from Germany “Das Symposium” (R. Schumann, Status und Prestige in der Hallstattkultur, Rahden 2015, 192–193).

Best wishes from Ljubljana         Dragan Božič

Perhaps also see:

Konferenz Morbach 2009: Situlen in Archaologie und Kulturgeschichte. Zusammenfassungen der Vortrage auf der Internationalen Table Ronde, Morbach, 1. Mai 2009. Leipziger online-Beitr. Ur- und Fruhgeschichtl. Arch. 32 (Leipzig 2009). URL: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/histsem/uploads/media/Nr.32-Table_Ronde_Morbach.pdf [last accessed by me 27.10.2012].

and

Hansen 2011: S. Hansen, Grosgrabhugel der alteren Eisenzeit zwischen West und Ost. Eine Annaherung. In: V. I. Molodin/S. Hansen (Red.), „Terra Scythica“ [Symposium

Denisov-Hohle/Altai 2011] (Novosibirsk 2011) 291–18.

(this shoudl be available on academia, where Prof. Hansen is well represented).

Best wishes

Hello again Joachim,

Since you are interested in the "feasting" aspect, maybe this article of my wife and me is also interesting for you - it also treats situla art.

Best wishes

I would like to say thanks to all the researchers who responded to my questions an by this way help me to carry on my project.

Thank you very much.

With kind regards

Joachim Neumaier

What I woul like to discuss is the question, if ceramical gravegoods of the  late bronze age in southern germany allow to conclude to the function of the dead in lifetimes, What does it mean, than in a stone burial cist appeared a lo to bronze objects, a sword ist not among them, but there is only one pottery vessel, which due to ergonomical aspects was used to fill up drinking vessels on feasts. Maybe the buried person was a well respected person, who organized the organization of food for a 'warlord' ? Even being theoratecillay himself as wel as sword-beares, maybee he preferred to appaer in his burial as - to use a medieval terminus - a butellarius,, more than a warrior ? Ideas come and go. I would like to discuss these questions with the cientitic community.