NÁBOŽENSKÉ IKONOGRAFIE V STARŠEJ DOBE BRONZOVEJ. (Slovak)

RELIGIÖSE IKONOGRAPHIE WÄHREND DER ÄLTEREN BRONZEZEIT. (German)
Religious iconographies in the early Bronze Age. (English)

This article deals with anthropomorphic depictions from the early Bronze Age from the Carpathian basin and central Danube region. Abstract-looking human figures can be found on metal headbands and pendants, engraved on pottery, or modelled as anthropomorphic sculptures. We can find individual depictions of human figures on several, identical types of finds, or with an identical method of depiction or composition. We therefore describe them as religious iconographies, i.e. a fixed method of depicting deities, in the early Bronze Age. We deal in brief with sculptures and incrusted depictions of human figures on pottery. However, we concentrated mainly on triadic, pair and other human figures on metal headbands and on several types of anthropomorphic and gynecomastonomorphic pendants. It is interesting to note that as in the case of sculptures and incrusted urns, these are mainly female iconographies. Individual groups of iconographies contain suggestive parallels between significant deities identified by the method of comparative Indo-European mythology, which might help identify them with more precision. This article thus helps, in our opinion, to contribute to our knowledge of religion in the early Bronze Age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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