Folia archeologica 45.
Beszédes József: Dioscuros ábrázolású sarokkő Alsóhetényből
THE LOVAS CASKE T 159 Fig. 1. The condition of the Lovas casket in 1920 1. ábra A lovasi ládika, 1920-as állapot The shape of the casket As it is visible on Figs. 1 and 2, only the upper part (with some remnants of the adjacent sides), and another piece with a fragmentary corner mount have survived from the wooden box. On the basis of spacing of the original nails, we can ascertain the position of the upper stripe. 2 0 The stripe with the large roundel showing a cavalryman, may have been placed originally in the middle. As for the fragment in the lower left corner on Fig. 2, this could have been another stripe, identical with the upper one, and it may have adorned the bottom of the casket. According to our reconstruction, the front side of the box was a quadrate, measuring 229x229 mm (without the lid). 2 1 2 0 For the possibilities of reconstruction cf. Gáspár 1971, 14-15. 2 1 We can assume, that there were only three stripes of identical height, and they were arranged so that the fragment with the roundel in the lower left corner on Fig. 2 and 9. had covered originally the forepart of the lid (and it was decorated with the same scenes like on the next one below it). Cf. e.g. the casket in Gáspár 1986, 197 cat. no. 688 from Dunaújváros. In this case the shape of the front part is again quadrate. The fact, that the height of casket lids (and their mounts) in group II are usually smaller than the uppermost decorative stripe on the lower part of the boxes, contradict to this possibility: see e.g. Gáspár 1986, 202-203, cat. no. 733; 211-212, cat. nos. 791 and 792; 218, cat. no. 838; 226-227, cat. no. 903 and mainly 218, cat. no. 837, the latter being the closest parallel to the Lovas casket in this typological group.
