!!!Situla von Kuffern

Situla of Kuffern, cone-shaped bucket made of bronze sheet, 25 cm 
in height, only situla with human figural ornamentations discovered 
north of the Alps, one of the most important finds in Lower Austria 
dating from the early  La Tène Culture. Shows scenes of a feast 
arranged in the form of bands running around the circumference. Made 
between 475 and 425 B.C. on the territory of what is now 
Slovenia, discovered in 1891 in a gravel deposit near Kuffern 
(municipality of Statzendorf, Lower Austria), exhibited in the Museum 
of Natural History in Vienna.


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