Fremde Frauen in Frög (original) (raw)
2019, Upiku Tauke Festschrift für Gerhard Tomedi zum 65. Geburtstag
This article discusses a figuratively ornamented vessel from a Hallstatt C period cremation grave in tumulus 1883/6/120 of Frög and its cultural context as an example for the wide-ranging contact networks of the Frög community. The production technique with a dark outer and reddish inner surface of the Frög vessel finds parallels among pottery assemblage of late Bronze Age and early Iron Age cultural groups located east of the bend of the Danube and at the lower Danube region. Furthermore, the ornamentation technique imitates those used for stamped pottery at the lower Danube in the early Iron Age. Finally, the figurative ornamentation of the vessel combines local narratives with Basarabi-style ornaments like the S-spiral. Thus, the vessel is an outstanding example for the incorporation processes of eastern elements of craft production into local aesthetic concepts of the eastern Hallstatt communities during the late Ha C period. So far, mainly men were associated with a sphere of interregional contacts. Armed conflicts resulting in the adaptation of superior military equipment or an ostentatious lifestyle as expression of high status with gift exchange of the paraphernalia of feasting and other ritualized festive forms of interaction were the medium in which those contacts were embodied. The role of women within this scenario should however be emphasized. Marriage practices including exogamy, in the discussed case in an east-western direction, obviously played a vital part in the social organization of the Frög community. A person who still possessed a vague idea of how Basarabi-motives or an eastern-style-vessel should look like probably produced the ornamented vessel in tumulus 1883/6/120 and combined the eastern style with local east-alpine narratives of figurative art. This person was most likely a woman as it can be assumed for hand-made pottery in general. We may assume mobility of women through marriage practices as the trigger for such east-western interaction processes in the field of craft production. Mobile women brought eastern ornamentation styles and fabrication techniques to Frög and very likely transmitted them through family traditions. By the incorporation of these foreign elements into local style concepts, that is the appropriation of different cultural practices, those women created something new and thus contributed significantly to shaping the cultural identity of the Frög community.
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