Hail you who have suffered what you had never suffered before. You became a god instead of a mortal. Gold leaf from Thurii, Southern Italy (Early or mid-fourth century BC) New interpretations, promoting concepts of entanglement, acceptance and rejections, enabled modern understanding of specific items of Mediterranean material culture in prehistoric Iron Age contexts. They enriched our understanding of the intercultural character of the world in the 4 th century BC. Valuable as vessels of exclusively symbolic significance rhyta will be discussed presenting their typological and stylistic determination and proposing their most probable place of production.Iconographically, the rhyta were mostly interpreted as an essential ritual vessel, as the symbol of the continuity of life celebrated on festivities. It became therefore accepted that rhyta as symbols and attributes of Dionysus as well as of heroes and heroized ancestors, were the reception of the unification of death and divine. On the territory of the Eastern Adriatic and it's hinterland we have detailed knowledge about only two contexts of discoveries -of rhyta from Stična and Jezerine. Further, we can ascribe to burials the rhyta from Tujan and Nesactium, while the finds from Valtida, Trogir and Palagruža should be considered as elements of the banquet service used during specific ceremonies in settlements or on specific ritual grounds. Their use was based on an existent ideology embedded within the societies, which had the communal feasting ritual at its core, an ideology susceptible to symbols coming from Mediterranean production centres. Focusing on rhyta as symbols of Mediterranean imports, our archaeological interpretations will become more culturally sensitive and anthropologically relevant by focusing on culture contact and redistribution of material culture.