Folia archeologica 45.

Beszédes József: Dioscuros ábrázolású sarokkő Alsóhetényből

THE LOVAS CASKE T 171 Fig. 12. 12. ábra Small clay bowl with a Runic inscription from Csákvár Agyagtálka rúnafelirattal Csakvárról Fig. 13. 13. ábra Small clay bowl with a Runic inscription from Csákvár Agyag tál ka rúnafelirattal Csakvárról world after the last battle. The upper register, flanked by four roundels referring again to victories over dark powers, begins with Apollo, identical with Baldr (in later sources) according to the interpretatio germanica, who rules over the new world. In the later versions of the myth, the gods play with golden gaming boards;

65 on the Lovas casket, possibly due to classical inspirations, only the most important god appears together with her muses, who, according to classical tradition had sung their first song in honour of the gods, after they had defeated the giants. The Csákvár bowl A clay bowl with scratched signs, resembling a runic inscription excavated in Csákvár, Eastern Pannónia, not far from Lovas, may prove that certain objects were produced for use exclusively as grave goods (Figs. 12-15).

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6 The signs had been scratched into the broad rim of the bowl before its coating with the red slip MTo the events of this battle, see: De Vries 1957:11, 392-405. 6

5 De Vries 1957:11, 395. 6

6Small bowl (height: 34-39 mm; diameter of rim: 116 mm; diameter at the base: 48 mm) coated with brick-coloured red slip. Found on 28th April, 1981 in Csák vár, Cardens of Széchenyi Roatl in grave no. 138, over the left side of the pelvis. King Saint Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár, excavation of Dr. Gabriella Nádorfi. Here I would like to express my gratitude to her, for allowing me to study and publish the bowl. The grave is dated to the last quarter of the 4th century A.D. (verbal information from Dr. Nádorfi). For the dating of the various sectors of, and the foreign barbarian elements in the cemetery cf. Nádorfi 1996, 96. (All drawings by Miss Ágnes Vári, Hungarian National Museum).