!!!Strettweger Kultwagen

Strettweger Kultwagen, one of the best-known pre-historic artefacts in 
Austria, a group of figures surrounding a 32 cm high female 
figure, holding a bronze kettle, arranged on a perforated base. Made 
around 600 B.C., it probably represents a sacrificial procession 
with a kettle on a cart containing drink-offerings (libations). It was 
found in 1851 in a monumental tumulus (chieftain´s burial mound) 
from the  Hallstatt Culture in Strettweg near Judenburg, with numerous 
funerary objects: bronze jewellery and various bronze artefacts 
(amphora for the ashes of the deceased), iron weapons, headgear for a 
team of draught-animals. On display at the Joanneum provincial museum 
in Graz.

!Literature
M. Egg, Neues zum Fuerstengrab von Strettweg, 1991.


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