Two prehistorical fi bulae from Oltenia

In September 2013 the author of these lines had the opportunity to document in Târgu Jiu two special fi bulae.1 One of them dates back to the early Hallstatt, the other to the late La Tène.2 Despite being dated almost a millennium apart from one another, it so happens that, due to the history of archeological taxonomy, both items received the same name in the Romanian specialized literature: “fibulae with shield”. The only thing that the two fibulae have in common, besides the modern labelling, is their present home: Oltenia. The immanence of both items in this part of the country is rather unusual – furthermore reason to take notice of them at once.