The Early Medieval Stirrup from Bribir

The text discusses an iron ornamented stirrup from Bribirska Glavica. This finding does add a great deal to the picture of the Bribir past, from the 9^th to the 12^th century, and yet in their fundamental cultural indicators do not depart from the framework that we know of for this site, from earlier work, and from other finds of the early medieval period. Analysis in terms of typology and chronology was used to try to show the different influences on the making of these objects or their direct import from the then bigger workshop centres in Central Europe or the Byzantine Empire. His quality and excellence of workmanship tellingly documents the high level of life in Bribir in the centuries in which the nobiles Breberienses started their economic, military and political rise.