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Saurel, Marion, Stéphane Verger, and Audrey Morigoni, “Le vase orné de Plichancourt, «Les Monts» (Marne) et les céramiques à décor d’étain de La Tène ancienne en Champagne”, Études Celtiques 38 (2012): 7–41.
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“Le vase orné de Plichancourt, «Les Monts» (Marne) et les céramiques à décor d’étain de La Tène ancienne en Champagne”
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Études Celtiques 38 (2012)
Études Celtiques 38 (2012).
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38
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7–41
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[FR] La fouille préventive effectuée au lieu-dit «Les Monts» à Plichancourt en 2003 a permis de mettre au jour plusieurs tombes de La Tène ancienne. Parmi elles, la tombe n° 493, qui peut être datée de La Tène B1 ancienne (Aisne-Marne IIC), a livré un grand vase caréné portant une décoration exceptionnelle, à la fois par la matière utilisée, les techniques employées et le répertoire iconographique mis en oeuvre. Le décor, concentré sur la partie haute du vase, comprend des panneaux couverts des restes d’une matière blanche que l’analyse a permis d’identifier comme de la feuille d’étain. Les compositions, d’inspiration végétale, sont du Premier Style celtique classique : frises d’esses et de fleurs de lotus formant des panneaux à double axe de symétrie. Elles renvoient aux productions métalliques les plus importantes des ateliers des régions rhénanes et ne trouvent pas de parallèles exacts en Champagne. Le répertoire des potiers se distinguait clairement de celui des métallurgistes champenois, qui est bien connu et n’a pas livré de compositions comparables. Quelques autres vases décorés à la feuille d’étain peuvent être identifiés en Champagne à La Tène ancienne, même si un programme systématique d’analyses serait nécessaire pour comprendre l’ampleur du phénomène. On les trouve essentiellement dans les services de table des tombes à char et des plus importantes des tombes simples, à La Tène A récente et B1 ancienne, à une époque où l’art des potiers champenois atteint un sommet. La petite série champenoise de vases à décor à la feuille d’étain ne trouve pas de véritables parallèles en Europe à la fin du Ve et au début du IVe siècle avant J.-C. : les séries connues sont plus anciennes, de la fin de l’âge du bronze et du premier âge du fer. Des études complémentaires seront nécessaires pour comprendre comment cette spécialité artisanale rare s’est implantée en Champagne à cette époque.[EN] The decorated vase from Plichancourt, “ Les Monts” (Marne), and the ceramics with tin decorations of Champagne in the early La Tène.
The preventive excavation conducted at a place called “ Les Monts” in Plichancourt in 2003 brought to light many tombs of early La Tène. Amongst them, the grave no. 493, which can be dated from early La Tène B1 (Aisne-Marne IIC), delivered a large vase with a hull-like bottom with a decoration exceptional by the material used, the techniques used and the iconographic repertoire employed. The ornamentation, mainly seen on the top of the vase, includes panels covered with the remains of a white substance that the analysis has identified as tinfoil. The compositions, of a vegetable repertoire, belong to the first classical Celtic style : friezes of esses and of lotus flowers forming panels with a double axis of symmetry. They refer us to the most important metal productions of Rhineland for which no exact parallel is known in Champagne. The repertoire of potters is clearly different from that of the Champagne metalworkers, which is well known and did not deliver comparable compositions. Some other vases decorated with tinfoil can be identified in Champagne in the early La Tène, although a systematic analysis is needed to understand the extent of the phenomenon. They are found mainly in the dinner sets of chariot graves and in the most important of the single tombs in later La Tène A and early La Tène B1, at a time when the art of Champagne potters was in its peak. The small series of Champagne vases decorated with tinfoil cannot find a real parallel in Europe in the late fifth and early fourth century BC : the known series are older, from the late Bronze Age and first Iron Age. Further studies will be needed to understand how this unusual craft specialty was located in Champagne at that time.
The preventive excavation conducted at a place called “ Les Monts” in Plichancourt in 2003 brought to light many tombs of early La Tène. Amongst them, the grave no. 493, which can be dated from early La Tène B1 (Aisne-Marne IIC), delivered a large vase with a hull-like bottom with a decoration exceptional by the material used, the techniques used and the iconographic repertoire employed. The ornamentation, mainly seen on the top of the vase, includes panels covered with the remains of a white substance that the analysis has identified as tinfoil. The compositions, of a vegetable repertoire, belong to the first classical Celtic style : friezes of esses and of lotus flowers forming panels with a double axis of symmetry. They refer us to the most important metal productions of Rhineland for which no exact parallel is known in Champagne. The repertoire of potters is clearly different from that of the Champagne metalworkers, which is well known and did not deliver comparable compositions. Some other vases decorated with tinfoil can be identified in Champagne in the early La Tène, although a systematic analysis is needed to understand the extent of the phenomenon. They are found mainly in the dinner sets of chariot graves and in the most important of the single tombs in later La Tène A and early La Tène B1, at a time when the art of Champagne potters was in its peak. The small series of Champagne vases decorated with tinfoil cannot find a real parallel in Europe in the late fifth and early fourth century BC : the known series are older, from the late Bronze Age and first Iron Age. Further studies will be needed to understand how this unusual craft specialty was located in Champagne at that time.
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