Hoards, safe, concealed storage places for valuable objects

Germany, Museum Island, Berlin, Pergamon Museum

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Hoards served as safe and concealed storage places for valuable objects. Sacrificial and votive offerings could also be placed in form of hoards, Foundation offerings including inscribed artefacts and so-called scattered offerings could be enclosed in the foundations of important buildings. The offering itself was performed as a ritual act during the construction or alteration of important buildings, especially of sacred structures.

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Hoards served as safe and concealed storage places for valuable objects, located at the Pergamon museum

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Source:  Berlin, Germany