THE GUNDESTRUP CAULDRON: THRACIAN ART -CELTIC MOTIFS

PAR

Flemming KAUL

More than a century has now passed since Sophus Müller1 first presented the newly-discovered Gundestrup Cauldron (FIG. 1). Since then hardly a year has passed without the publication of some article or treatise relating to the cauldron. In 1970 J. V. S. Megaw wrote: “ probably no other surviving relic of European craftsmanship -with the exception of Stonehenge -has occasioned so much publication and dispute as the silver cauldron of Gundestrup”. Since then the stream of publications has not lessened in its pace.

Fig. 1. The Gundestrup Cauldron. © Photo Danish National Museum