Folia archeologica 25.

Tóth Endre: Korabizánci kőfaragvány Felsődörgicséről

EARLY BYZANTINE STONE SCULPTURE 177 dörgicse fragment must have belonged, with a high probability, to a screen or ambo, its function, however, can not be defined exactly as yet. Based on the monuments found at Ravenna and in Hispania, the terminus post quem of the Felsődörgicse relief may be, after all, given: it cannot be dated earlier than the fifties of the sixth century, A.D. Its relation to the Ravenna pieces and its workmanship do not allow, though, a dating later than the first decades of the 7th century. According to its composition, the Felsődörgicse sculpture is to be dated to the second half of the 6th century; its style and workmanship point, however, to a period anterior to the emergence of the flat relief style. Everything considered, the sculpture might have been executed, with all probability, in the third quarter of the 6th century. This dating is, though, based on the material of the classical areas and may be modified by several historical problems of the 6th-century Transdanubia, not solved as yet. As the stone monuments of Pannónia, to be dated after the 5th century and destined, evidently, almost entirely for Christian cultic purposes, are not recognized, collected and dealt with as yet, no historical conclusions are permitted, as they are hypothetical for the moment being. My opinion is, though, that the relief is to be brought in connection with the surviving remains of Pannonia's Late Antique population. 12 Folia Archaeologica 1974