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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Olèrdola
Omeka ID 2181
Olèrdola
Protohistory

signet ring with print of an anatid

MAC OLE-00183

Object type
ring
Production date
-400 / -200
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Olèrdola
Culture
Protohistory
Discovery location
Olèrdola. Entrada recinte (sector 01)
Materials
bronze
Township
Olèrdola (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Barcelona, Alt Penedès)
Technique
casting
Where is it?
Centre Interpretació
Dimensions
16 mm
Description
Bronze ring with a seal at the top decorated with a waterfowl, printed as a negative. It was found in 1987 in the excavations in the entrance to the enclosure (Sector 01) in an Early Medieval layer of Phase 2. This type of signet ring was quite common in the Iberian world and originated in the western Mediterranean, with productions from the fifth century BC. The Iberian imitations date from much later, from the third century BC. Parallelisms for this ring from Olèrdola were found in the necropolis of La Serreta, Valencia (Cortell et al. 1992, fig 17, No. 10, 11 and 12); necropolis in Carmona (Belén, Escacena 1992, Fig. 5, 666 -Tombs 14) and in Lattes (Roaux 1999, Fig. 1387 and 1389).

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