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The Gundestrup version of Táin Bó Cuailnge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Garrett S. Olmsted
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While most observers now agree that the Gundestrup cauldron originated on the Continent within a Celtic context and dates to the period 100-50 BC (Klindt-Jensen, 1960, 50; Powell, 1971, 205; Allen, 1971, 20, 23) its fantastic motifs have, despite Hatt’s (1965) imaginative rendering, remained enigmatic to most commentators. ‘The Gundestrup artists were influenced by strangely archaic, Oriental imagery and mode of composition’ (Klindt-Jensen, 1959, 167), which is a pronounced element of this unusual piece whatever its exact geographical origin.

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Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 198 , June 1976 , pp. 95 - 103
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1976

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