Semnificații ale tezaurului de la Săliștea

The silver objects discovered in 1821 in the Cioara village (currently Săliștea, Alba county, Romania) belong to the fi rst Dacian hoard ever conserved in modern times. Th e hoard is preserved nowadays in the Museum of Art History in Vienna (Kunsthistorisches Museum); it consists of two necklaces (Figs. 2/1-2), fi ve fi bulae (Figs. 1/1-4, 2/3), four bracelets (Figs. 3/2-5), six twisted links (Figs. 2/4-9), one loop-in-loop type chain (Fig. 3/1), fi ve pendants (Figs. 3/6-10), three spiral rings (Figs. 2/10-12), a gilded fragmentary plate with anthropomorphic representations (Figs. 4, 5), a funnel-shaped object (Fig. 6/1) and three perforated discs (Figs. 6/2-4). The dressing and adornment objects are typical products of the late Latène period of silversmith art in Dacia, dated in the second half of the 1st century BC. The present interpretation of the hoard’s inventory consists of three assumptions: