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Sound recordings of original pellet bells from the cemeteries Radvaň nad Dunajom-Žitava I (Žitavská Tôň), Holiare and Skalika, SK. Supplementum to Pomberger/Mühlhans/Saunderson "Investigations on some Pellet bells and Bells from the Early Middle Ages in Slovakia (Nové Zámky I, Radvaň nad Dunajom-Žitava I (Žitavská Tôň), Holiare and Skalica)" and the Archaeological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Nitra

DOI: https://doi.org/10.57756/x5qb8g
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Publication date: 30 Jun 2025
Publisher: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW)
Collections: Prehistory
Resource type: Audiovisual
Specimen: SAS-IA-Nitra-2405, SNMM-D-2128, SNMM-Skalika-Vysoké pole_tum13-grave6, SAS-IA-Nitra-2760, SNMM-D-2139, SNMM-D-2137, SNMM-D-2134, SNMM-D-2133, SNMM-D-2127
License: CC BY
CC BY 4.0 International
Tags: Avars Bridle Child Early middle ages Frühmittelalter Horse Kind Metallic idiophones Muscial instruments Musicarchaeology Musikarchäologie Original sound Pellet bells Pferd Psychoacoustics Psychology of music Slaves Zaumzeug
Countries:
  • Slovakia
Chronology: Early Middle Ages
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Pomberger B. (2025). Sound recordings of original pellet bells from the cemeteries Radvaň nad Dunajom-Žitava I (Žitavská Tôň), Holiare and Skalika, SK. Supplementum to Pomberger/Mühlhans/Saunderson "Investigations on some Pellet bells and Bells from the Early Middle Ages in Slovakia (Nové Zámky I, Radvaň nad Dunajom-Žitava I (Žitavská Tôň), Holiare and Skalica)" and the Archaeological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Nitra. NHMW Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.57756/x5qb8g

Abstract

Sound recordings of original pellet bells from the cemeteries Radvaň nad Dunajom-Žitava I (Žitavská Tôň) and Skalika, Slovakia, kept in the collections of the Slovak National Museum Martin and the Archaeological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Nitra

Usage Notes

Original sound of Avar pellet bells from the cemeteries 

Radvaň nad Dunajom-Žitava I (Žitavská Tôň), Nitriansky kra, burial 10: SNMM-D-2127, SNMM-D-2128, SNMM-D-2133, SNMM-D-2134, SNMM-D-2137 (Slovak National Museum Martin)

Holiare, Nitriansky kraj, grave 92: SAS-IA-Nitra-2760; grave 782: SAS-IA-Nitra-2405 (Slovak Academy of Sciencies Nitra. Archaeological Institute)

Early Slavic cemetery 

Skalica-Vysoké pole,Trnavký kraj, Burial Nr. tumulus 13_tomb 6 : SNMM-Skalika-Vysoké pole_tum13-grave6 (Slovak National Museum Martin)

Funding

Agency Program Proj. Id Proj. Title
FWF Austrian Science Fund Hertha-Firnberg-Programm T 1136-G Metallic idiophones between 800 BC and 800 AD in Central Europe

Publications

Pomberger, B M.; Mühlhans, J. & Saunderson, K. (2025) Investigations on some Pellet bells and Bells from the Early Middle Ages in Slovakia (Nové Zámky I, Radvaň nad Dunajom-Žitava I (Žitavská Tôň), Holiare and Skalica). Slovenská archeológia LXXIV, 2025.

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Pellet_bell_2128_Radvan_nad_Dunajom_Zitava_I_grave_10.MP3 Sound recording of original pellet bell_2128_Radvaň_nad _Dunajom_Žitava_I_grave_10 0.13 MB
Pellet_bell_2133_Radvan_nad_Dunajom_Zitava_I_grave_10.MP3 Sound recording of original pellet bell_2133_Radvaň_nad_Dunajom_Žitava_I_grave_10 0.1 MB
Pellet_bell_2134_Radvan_nad_Dunajom_Zitava_I_grave_10.MP3 Sound recording of original pellet bell_2134_Radvaň_nad_Dunajom_Žitava_I_grave_10 0.11 MB
Pellet_bell_2137_Radvan_nad_Dunajom_Zitava_I_grave_10.MP3 Sound recording of original pellet bell_2137_Radvaň_nad_Dunajom_Žitava_I_grave_10 0.08 MB
Pellet_bell_2139_Radvan_nad_Dunajom_Zitava_I_grave_10.MP3 Sound recording of original_pellet bell_ 2139_Radvaň_nad_Dunajom_Žitava_I_grave_10 0.08 MB
pellet_bell_Holiare_grave_782.mp3 Sound recording of original pellet bell Holiare_grave_782 0.55 MB
pellet_bell_Holiare_grave_92.mp3 Sound recording of original_pellet_bell_Holiare_grave_92 0.42 MB
Pellet_bell_Skalica_grave_13.MP3 Sound recording of original_pellet_bell_Skalica_grave_13 0.1 MB