Celtic art in Europe: making connections: essays in honour of Vincent Megaw on his 80th birthday

Contributors ix
1. Introduction to Celtic Art in Europe: making connections / Chris Gosden, Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider 1
2. Once again, Herodotus, the Κελτοί, the source of the Danube, and the Pillars of Hercules / John T. Koch 6
3. The Sheffield origins of Celtic Art / John Collis 19
4. Theorie der keltischen Kunst. Ein Versuch / Felix Müller 28
5. Les codes de représentation visuelle dans l’art celtique ancien / Laurent Olivier 39
6. Hidden faces and animal images on Late Iron Age and Early Roman horse harness decorated using the \'champlevé\' technique / Jennifer Foster 56
7. The human masks of unknown provenience / Mitja Guštin 68
8. Heads, masks and shifting identities: a note about some Danubian \'kantharoi\' with anthropomorphic decoration / Mariana Egri 73
9. \'Off with their heads...!\' once again: images of daggers and severed heads on an Iberian \'falcata\' sword / Fernando Quesada Sanz 86
10. A Celtic severed head, or Lazarus in the arms of Abraham? / Natalie Venclová and Jan Royt 96
11. Zur Attachenzier der Schnabelkannen von Basse-Yutz / Otto-Herman Frey 101
12. The not so ugly duckling – an essay on meaning / Flemming Kaul 105
13. Fragments of a \'carnyx\' from Leisach (Austria) / Paul Gleirscher 113
14. Between ruling ideology and ancestor worship: the \'mos maiorum\' of the Early Celtic \'Hero Graves\' / Thomas Stöllner 119
15. Alfred and Alexander / John Boardman 137
16. La fibule de Moscano di Fabriano: un jalon important de l’évolution de l’art celtique au IVe siècle avant J.-C / Luana et Venceslas Kruta 140
17. Zum Wenden: der Halsring aus Gehweiler-Oberlöstern im Saarland / Rudolf Echt 148
18. Late Hallstatt and Early La Tène gold and silver beads in southeast Pannonia / Hrvoje Potrebica and Marko Dizdar 152
19. \'East meets West...\': The stamped pottery from the La Tène cemetery at Fântânele-Dealul Popii (Transylvania, Romania) / Aurel Rustoiu 159
20. A vessel with stamped decoration from the Želiezovce collection / Gertrúda Březinová 173
21. Balkan \'Kantharoi\' / Petar Popović 177
22. La Tène and Przeworsk strap shield bosses from Poland / Tomasz Bochnak 183
23. De l’anneau en bronze à têtes de béliers de Chermignac (Charente-Maritime) et de quelques pièces de harnais. La Tène finale de Gaule de l’Ouest / José Gomez de Soto 196
24. A mould for Celtic-type rings from Sanzeno in the Valle di Non, Trentino / Franco Marzatico 206
25. \'Leopold Bloom I\' and the Hungarian Sword Style / Paul Jacobsthal, with introduction by Katharina Ulmschneider and Sally Crawford 213
26. The Celtic mercenary reconsidered / Jan Bouzek 223
27. The Dragon from Oberleiserberg / Maciej Karwowski 234
28. A l\'aube du IIIe s. av. J.-C.: les fourreaux d’épée à décor estampé sur fer / Thierry Lejars 239
29. \'...to boldly go where no man has gone before.\' Dedicated to Ruth and Vincent... / Boris Kavur and Martina Blečić Kavur 264
30. Art and Craftsmanship in elite-warrior graves: \'from Boii to Parisii and back again...\' / Nathalie C. Ginoux and Peter C. Ramsl 274
31. Ascot hats: an Iron Age leaf crown helmet from Fiskerton, Lincolnshire? / Andrew Fitzpatrick and Martin Schönfelder 286
32. Snettisham swansong / I. M. Stead 297
33. The Iron Age open-air ritual site at Hallaton, Leicestershire: some wider implications / Colin Haselgrove and Vicki Score 304
34. Brit-art: Celtic Art in Roman Britain and on its Frontiers / Jody Joy 315
35. Art in context: the massive metalworking tradition of north-east Scotland / Fraser Hunter 325
36. The Torrs \'Chamfrein\' or Head-piece: restoring \'A very curious relic of antiquity\' / C. Stephen Briggs 341
37. Vincent, in appreciation / Mansel Spratling 356
J. V. S. Megaw: bibliography 361
Colour Plates 373