Remains of two Middle La Tène Warrior graves from the Auersperg Palace in Ljubljana ; Ostanki dveh srednjelatenskih bojevniških grobov iz Turjaške palače v Ljubljani

This contribution presents the preliminary findings on the remains of the La Tène warrior graves discovered in the Early Roman in-fill deposit during the investigation of the Auersperg Palace building area in Ljubljana in 2002. Especially noteworthy is a conglomerate of iron objects, in which there are a four times folded sword of a Middle La Tène scheme, a band-shaped shield boss, a shaft-hole axe and perhaps also a ring, which had been a part of a belt set. Adherent to the conglomerate are fragments of burnt human bones and several fragments of one or two reconstructed vessels, which were found in the same deposit in larger numbers. The presence of two hand-built pots with the characteristics of the local La Tène pottery, as well as the shaft-hole axe, typical of the Late Hallstatt warrior’s equipment, foreign to the Celtic armament, indi¬cates that this is the grave of a native, roughly from the transition between the LT C1 and LT C2 phases or slightly later. Discovered in the same deposit, there was a once folded scabbard with its mouth decorated with unique composite motif of a dragon pair and a snake, combined with vegetative ornamentation. The scabbard is a typical piece of the LT C1b phase weaponry and belongs to another burial, supposedly slightly older than the first one. ; Prispevek prinaša predhodne ugotovitve o ostankih latenskih bojevniških grobov, odkritih v zgodnjerimskem nasutju med raziskavami stavbišča Turjaške palače v Ljubljani leta 2002. Izstopa sprimek železnih predmetov, ki združuje štirikrat prepognjen meč srednjelatenske sheme, trakasto ščitno grbo, uhato sekiro in morda še obroček pasne garniture. Sprimka se držijo drobci sežganih človeških kosti in več odlomkov ene ali dveh rekonstruiranih posod, ki so bili v večjem številu odkriti v istem nasutju. Prisotnost prostoročno izdelanega lonca in buče z značilnostmi lokalnega latenskega lončarstva in uhate sekire, tipičnega sestavnega dela poznohalštatskega bojnega kompleta, tujega keltski oborožitvi, kaže, da gre za grob staroselca, ki sodi okvirno na prehod med stopnjama LT C1 in LT C2 ali v starejši del stopnje LT C2. V istem nasutju je bila odkrita še prepognjena nožnica s kakovostno izdelanim okrasom ustja, ki ga sestavljajo trodelni motiv s parom zmajčkov in kačo ter rastlinski ornament. Nožnica sodi med značilne kose vojaške opreme stopnje LT C1b in pripada drugi grobni celoti, domnevno nekoliko starejši od prve.