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Beszédes József: Dioscuros ábrázolású sarokkő Alsóhetényből

176 MIHÁL.Y NAGY Fig. 16. Map showing the findsites of caskets from Eastern Pannónia, mentioned in the text 16. ábra A tanulmányban említett Kelet-pannoniai ládikák lelőhelyeinek térképe 1. Csákvár, 2. Dunapentele, 3. Felcsút, 4. Keszthelv-Fenékpuszta, 5. Királyszentistván, 6. Kisárpás-Mórichida, 7. Lovas, 8. Sirmium, 9. Tordas pantheon. The third component in the erudition of the craftsman of the moulds for the Lovas casket, points toward the north-eastern parts of the Carpathian Basin and even farther, to the region, which had been exposed to the influence of the mixed Pontic-Scythian-Celtic art, both before and during the Roman period. Certain elements, like the archaic iconographie type of Heracles standing on a column, may have got into the repertoire of the mould's craftsman from this circle. As we have already mentioned, Radnóti had pointed out the connections of the East-Pannonian caskets with the circle of grave no. 20 at Szentes-Nagyhegy, while Fettich recognized the relationship between the patera in the Pietroasa treasure and the Gundestrup caudron.

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2 The eyes of the golden masks in the Szentes-Nagy8

2 See note 16 above; moreover Fettich 1931; and Párducz 1956, 153-154 (the latter on the accented role of the animal style and the Scythian-Hellenistic artistic influences on the Great Hungarian Plain). On Pontic art and the revival of archaic motives of lllyrian and Celtic origin, during the second half of the 4th century, in the north-eastern part of the Carpathian Basin, see: Alföldi 19291930, 22 and passim.