Typological and Stylistic Analysis of the East Gothic Jewelry in the Area of Roman Province Dalmatia

Abstract

Jewerly items represent the most relevant finds for the analysis of east Gothic archeological heritage in the area of the ex-Roman province Dalmatia. On the basis of the typological and stylistic investigation, the author establishes that the greatest part of these finds was produced in the east-Gothic workshops in the Northern Italy where the most important workshops for this kind of jewerly existed. Part of the jewerly was made in Pontic workshops which continued to exist even after the east Goths in Italy stopped producing the jewerly according to their taste. Especially important are the samples or jewerly which do not have a direct connection with other big workshops from that time and for which it is believed that they were cheated in native workshops, probably in Salona.