Fire dog

The moon Idol ( also moon horn) has BC ( late Bronze Age ), especially during the urnfield time served 1300-800 as firedog.

The lunar horns but usually found as single copies are usually manufactured from clay. While most are ambiguous due to its shape, the moon idol from Ebersberg and a firedog from Lörzweiler circle show Mainz -Bingen forms that come very close to a bull horns. Iron meantime find then also from Denmark to Romania increased ritz decorated bucks, which will show at the corners of a stylized animal head. Pictures that could pose moon idols were also found on Iron Age coins.

A rarer moon idol find was made in the disturbed grave of the 11th century BC in Reinach in the canton of BL. On the Kestenbergstrasse at Möriken in the canton of Aargau, there were the fragments of more than six lunar horns. In Buxheim Krs Ingolstatt a moon idol was found in a settlement pit. While most specimens have a flat, wide footprint, the piece of Bötzingen ( the emperor chair) has three round feet.

The Swiss M. Kerner holds the moon horn for an astro- geodetic instrument. A versehenenes with nine spikes and five horizontal holes copy from Mainz -Hechtsheim based apparently such an assumption. Also one of the copies found on the Kestenbergstrasse has five such holes.

Firedog

Iron Age finds of this type - but with a different shape - are as firedog be found in literature. A particularly beautifully decorated copy is of earthen firedog of large Siemz in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. He showed no traces ( heat, soot).

Fire bar

In Sättelstädt in Wartburgkreis 2003, the end pieces of a ritz ornate cube of 8 x 8 cm were found ( at an assumed length of 120 cm) in a house of the first century, which is interpreted as a firedog.

Other

In the so-called moon horn, which is shown under a Abri in the Dordogne France in relief and the Venus de Laussel shows that bears in his right hand, is a representation of an entirely different nature ( horn of plenty ).