Strettweger Kultwagen

Strettweger Kultwagen, one of the best-known pre-historic artefacts in Austria, a group of figures surrounding a 32 cm high female figure, holding a bronze kettle, arranged on a perforated base. Made around 600 B.C., it probably represents a sacrificial procession with a kettle on a cart containing drink-offerings (libations). It was found in 1851 in a monumental tumulus (chieftain´s burial mound) from the Hallstatt Culture in Strettweg near Judenburg, with numerous funerary objects: bronze jewellery and various bronze artefacts (amphora for the ashes of the deceased), iron weapons, headgear for a team of draught-animals. On display at the Joanneum provincial museum in Graz.

Literature: M. Egg, Neues zum Fürstengrab von Strettweg, 1991.