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These bowls are from the Late Bronze Age settlement of Axtroki (Bolibar, Excoriatza, Guipúzcoa), Spain and are made from pure gold. When they were found, one bowl was inside the other. It has recently been suggested that these pieces and the one found in Rianxo, near the Arosa Estuary in Galicia, were probably ceremonial helmets or caps, worn at an act of worship or special ritual. In keeping with this hypothesis, the decorative motifs are thought to be solar symbols. (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid)
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