Abstract
The Hosty tomb in southern Bohemia, new considerations. The example of conservation of the openwork belt-hook from Hosty has been used to demonstrate that the belt-hooks from Bohemia were as rich in decoration and construction elements as it is the case with bronze products of the Western - La Tène zone. At the same time the find concerned exposes the system of decoration of Early La Tène belt-hooks in Bohemia. The initial motif of the master of the beast of North Italian origin had been here, same as in the Rhineland, substituted by a schematized human mask. On the object of the study it is framed by series of symmetrically set pairs of S -shaped animal motifs. The masterly iron working in local workshops was capable to satisfy even the different aesthetic demands of East - La Tène zone.
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