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32 Biconical urn with a tall conical neck and into the pin with two coils. Central circular
a pronounced transition from the rounded plates with punched decoration are at the
shoulder to the neck. The neck bears an in- centre of the discs.
cised decoration of two thin parallel lines. Dimensions: L. 18.4 cm; disc diam. 8.1 cm.
Slightly drawn-out, flat ring foot; markedly Inv. no.: AZO 3003
everted and thickened rim. One preserved 35 Bronze bracelets of double bent cross-secti-
vertical handle at the junction of the shoul- on. One fully preserved, the other fragmen-
der and lower neck. Medium-grained fabric ted (2 items).
with inclusions of quartzitic sand, grog, and
calcium carbonate; exterior smoothed and Dimensions: diam. 8.4 cm; fragment L. 4.6
burnished, interior uneven. Fire-affected cm. Inv. nos.: AZO 3004, 3005
and eroded surface, predominantly greyish- 36 Two well-preserved amber polygonal be-
-brown with orange-brown and black areas. ads, with circular bodies and four triangu-
Dimensions: H. 27 cm; shoulder diam. 29 lar protrusions, and one circular flat bead. 85
cm; foot diam. 8 cm. Inv. no.: AZO 1874. Dimensions: polygonal beads L. 2.2–2.4
Bibliography: Marić et al. (2010, 277–79, cm; diam. of circular bead 1 cm. Inv. nos.:
figs. 2–5), Blečić Kavur and Kavur (2013, AZO 3585, 3586
figs. 3–4), Blečić Kavur (2014, 110–1, fig. 37 Blue glass beads, two with a horizontal whi-
64). te inlay along the body, and two ‘eye’ beads
also bordered with white stripes.
Grave 3 (4.323): Excavated in 2013 in the
area of Building B, Space IVg. The inhumation Dimensions: diam. of eye beads 0.9 cm;
was placed in a small, square stone chest (55×42 diam. of inlay beads 0.8 cm. Inv. nos.: AZO
cm), constructed of four thin limestone slabs 3587, 3588
and partly set into a clayey substrate. The north- 38 Cylindrical and ribbed bone beads, total 13
ern slab extended approximately 20 cm beyond pieces.
the edge of the chest. The dimensions of the Dimensions: L. 0.6–2.2 cm; diam. 0.7 cm.
chest and the few scattered skeletal remains in- Inv. no.: AZO 3589
dicate a child burial. Bibliography: Bully et al. (2017, fig. 20), Ča- The Emergence of the Iron Age in Osor Through Representative Material Culture
33 Three small amber beads. Inv. no.: AZO. ušević-Bully et al. (2017, fig. 14), Blečić Ka-
Bibliography: Čaušević-Bully et al. (2014, 8, vur (2021, 543, fig. 6), Blečić Kavur and Ka-
fig. 4), Marić et al. (2014, 463, fig. 2). vur (2024, 19, figs. 2–3; 2025, fig. 7).
Grave 5 (5.184): The grave was excavat- Grave 6 (5.185): Excavated in 2016 in the
ed in 2016 at the bottom of a medieval stone immediate vicinity, i.e., southeast of grave 5
tomb (5.186), near the façade of the vestibule. A near the façade of the vestibule. Stone chest con-
younger female individual was buried in a semi- structed of three partially preserved limestone
crouched position, surrounded by large un- slabs, containing the burial of a female individ-
worked stone blocks and oriented northwest to ual in a crouched position.
southeast. 39 Three amber beads: one round and oval in
34 Spectacle fibula made of bronze wire with cross-section, and two flat rhomboid beads,
a square cross-section. The discs consist of all heavily damaged.
9 spiral coils and are connected by a small Dimensions: diam. of round bead 2.3 cm;
central loop with a circular cross-section, to diam. of flat beads 2.5 cm. Inv. no.: AZO
which wires are attached. They are riveted 2511, 2512, 2513
to a straight rectangular bar that transitions