Folia archeologica 45.

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76 ISTVÁN VÖRÖS sin. metacarpus IL.-V., carpus, sin et. dext. Femur-patella-tibia-calcaneus, sin. metatarsus IV-V, dext. metatarsus III.-V., 5 os ph.I., 2 os ph. II., 1 os ph. III. Missing: right side fore leg, both shoulderbones, vertebral column, the end of both legs (with the toes). The head of the dog was pressed together by pressure force from the direction frontal bone and the right side (Fig. 4.). The skull is short and wide. The facial part of the skull has thin walls. The os zygomaticum is strong, thick, its height is 14 mm. The praemaxilla is protruding. From the parts preserved it is apparent that the forehead must have been straight (i.e., concave from a mediansagittal view), the profile of the back of the nose is broken by a stop which is of medial position. The corpus of the short and thick mandible is evenly high, the lower eclge arched (Fig. 4, Fig. 7/1.). The dentition is strong, the small teeth developed without gap. The left side upper and the right side lower P2-3 are huddled together in a coulisse-like manner, i.e., shifted side by side towards the interior side, whereas the crown of the right side P„ is turning outwards. The canines are strong and well built, the crown of the right side canine was broken during the life of the animal. The dimensions of the skull are summarised on Table 2., while that of the mandibles are given on Table 3. Most of the postcranial long bones are broken (Fig. 5). The diaphyses of the strong, short bones are arched, with well developed traces of musculature. The joint end of the long bones are relatively large. The arch of the epistropheus is 16 mm long, the cranial joint surface is 24.5 mm wide. The mc II.-III.-IV.-V are 43, 49, 49, 41 mm long, respectively; the mt III.-IV.-V are 64, 56, 49 mm long. Sex of the dog - on the basis of the morphological features of the skull and the long bones, the animal must have been male. Age of the dog: cca. 5 years Fig. 4. Jászdózsa-Kápolnahalom (1943) I louse V/l

, skull and mandible of" the sacrifice dog "from the wall of the house". 4. ábra Jászdózsa-Kápolnahalom '43. V/l. ház, áldozati kutyakoponya és mandibula ,.a ház falából".