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Gambling at Glauberg
Gambling and especially dice were widespread and popular in all levels of society in the Middle Ages. The games were often played for material assets or money, which always brought fraudsters and loaded dice to the fore.
Gambling and especially dice were widespread and popular in all levels of society in the Middle Ages. The games were often played for material assets or money, which always brought fraudsters and loaded dice to the fore.
The razor's small bronze handle is decorated with a panther's head protruding from a stylized leaf calyx. The lower part of the handle ends in frame-like sockets into which the forged iron blade was inserted.
In memory of the poet and natural scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a Goethe monument was erected on the Glauberg plateau at the beginning of the 19th century.
The massively cast head of a greyhound sat as an appliqué on the edge of a small bronze vessel. Since only a small part of the rim has been preserved, the shape of the bowl cannot be determined in more detail.
The swan's head sits as a hook on a slightly curved fitting plate. It may have been nailed to a wooden stick. The elongated eyes and head feathers are carved. Such bird heads are often shaped as the end of handles or handles.
The half lid made of sheet bronze was originally soldered onto a flat basin with a rounded bottom. This basin had a pouring spout in front of which a strainer insert was attached. Sieve basins with half lids are considered tableware and were probably used to filter out suspended matter such as coarsely chopped spices from wine or beer.
The shiny brass-colored jug owes its good state of preservation to the fact that it survived the centuries in a well over 14 m deep. The handle of the vessel is richly decorated. The mouth of the handle is decorated with a palmette with rolled ends, from which two stylized bird heads develop and lie around the edge of the jug.
Mistletoe is one of the evergreen plants that are often used as decoration at Christmas time. Reference is often made to Celtic customs. But what do we actually know?
The hollow cast bronze statuette shows a bow-legged man in a hooded cloak (cucullus). Originally the upper part of the hood formed a lid. The coat leaves the strongly domed belly and the widely protruding phallus exposed at the front. The phallus ends in an open spout, it is hollow and connected to the interior.
The small lamp in the shape of a sea creature or dragon originally rested on a base that has now broken off. The lamp's belly is designed as a boat's hull, and the animal's towering three-lobed tail is reminiscent of a cloverleaf.