page_title: Dacian bracelets
section_title: Bracelets with a snake-motif
hierarchical_section_title: Dacian bracelets / Bracelets in the "Classical Dacian" period of the Dacian State / Bracelets with a snake-motif
caption_attribution_description: English: Ancient archaeological finds: bracelets with overlaping ends&#160;; ancient Dacia Slimnic type according to Dorin Popescu historian
context_page_description: The Dacian bracelets are bracelets associated with the ancient people known as the Dacians, a distinct branch of the Thracians. These bracelets were used as ornaments, currency, high rank insignia and votive offerings Their ornamentations consist of many elaborate regionally distinct styles. Bracelets of various types were worn by Dacians, but the most characteristic piece of their jewelry was the large multi-spiral bracelets; engraved with palmettes towards the ends and terminating in the shape of an animal head, usually that of a snake.
context_section_description: This motif is found with both the multi-spiral bracelets and also with the simple bracelets.
  Multi-spiral silver bracelets terminating with portions of palmettes and snake protome terminals at each end, i.e. those found at Cojocna, Bălăneşti (Mărunţei), Rociu, Coada Malului Drauseni (Caţa) (destroyed by 1941), Feldioara and Orastie. The endings of some of the bracelets were gilded: i.e. Coada Malului  and Orastie.
  Multi-spiral bracelets with snake-heads at each terminal, but whose terminals do not have the palmettes, that are plaques decorated with large scales, i.e. those from Herastrau (Bucuresti) dated to the 1st century BC. A bracelet from Bunesti (Vaslui County) is similar to the one from Herastrau, but it is dated earlier than the 1st century BC.
  Simple bracelets, where stylized snake heads terminate the ends. The ends are either in the shape of an animal's head summarily but adroitly stylized, as in the case of the Slimnic bracelets, or in other cases the animal's head is suggested by a few engraved lines, and the decorated ends were gilded. Finds include those from: Ocnita (Valcea County), Poiana (Tecuci), Săcălăsău Nou (Bihor County), in Romania; and also from Jakabszállás in Hungary.
  Bronze bracelets cast and incised with snake protomes, i.e. those found in Râşnov, Braşov County, and dated to the 2nd or 1st century AD.
caption: Dacian bracelet from Transylvania; Slimnic type (La Tène Age)[117]
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