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LIVING AND DOCUMENTED CULTURE · 02

Banquet and procession as politics

Banquets and processions among the Celts

Vessels, cauldrons and wagons help study the gatherings and ceremonies of elites.

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DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis

Declared visual reconstruction, created for museographic contextualisation; not a photograph of the original nor does it constitute documentary evidence.

Image of Banquet and procession as politics
DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis

Declared visual reconstruction, created for museographic contextualisation; not a photograph of the original nor does it constitute documentary evidence.

History and context

There is no evidence of a pan-Celtic theatre or identical liturgy from Iberia to Ireland.

Evidence and interpretation

Synthesis based on UNESCO · Hallstatt; Heuneburg official; Bibracte. The comparison serves to formulate questions, not to fill gaps in the record with certainties.

Catalogue facts

Civilisation or trajectory
Celtic Worlds
Scope
Dance, rite and representation
Main area
Central Europe, especially the Hallstatt and La Tène archaeological areas.

A closer look

About 1 min to read · 1 section. Further reading and sources · free access. Editorial review recorded: .

A local drink in a transformed vessel

The Hochdorf cauldron allows tracing a material adaptation of the banquet. It arrived from Magna Graecia and received later modifications: three handles and a third lion made locally were added to the vessel. The other two lions are probably attributed to workshops of Greek southern Italy. Inside, remains related to mead and honey pollen were preserved. The imported vessel thus participated in a regional drinking practice and was altered by other craftsmen; the prestige of its origin did not prevent intervention upon it.

Location and territory

Physical world map with routes of human evolutionPresent-day world coastline from Natural Earth in an equirectangular projection. The overlaid markers let you explore each milestone.Map base: Natural Earth 1:110m · public domain · present-day reference coastline

REGIONAL AREA

Constellation of regional spheres; not a single territorial stateConstellation of Regional Areas; Not a Single Territorial State. The footprint indicates the orientative centre of the area, not a boundary nor an exact point.

Sources and references

Consult the sources of this cultural synthesis

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