Somogyvári Ágnes – V. Székely György szerk.: „In terra quondam Avarorum…” Ünnepi tanulmányok H. Tóth Elvira 80. születésnapjára - Archaeologia Cumanica 2. (Kecskemét, 2009)
Wicker Erika: A 17. századi adai kincslelet dísztűi
archaeologia cumanica 2 WICKER 2008 Wicker Erika: Rácok és vlahok a hódoltság kori Észak-Bácskában. Kecskemét, 2008 WICKER 2009 Wicker Erika: A XVII. századi adai kincslelet halántékdísz-fülbevalópárja. Cumania 24., 2009,51-90. Erika Wicker Ornamented pins and brooches of the 17 t h century Ada Hoard In March 1966, on a Saturday, a tractor dug out metal vessels in the vicinity of Ada. In a cauldron like vessel covered with two plain plates, the following pieces of jewellery were hidden: pair of two disc-shaped earring-temple decorations, two pairs of brooches and a single one, 19 ornamented hair-pins, two rings, 3 jacket clasps and almost 100 knobs of different types. Composition of the find that got to the museum of Ada refers to the fact that it was not a collected and hidden property of a family, but a set of an itinerant vendor. Group of pieces of special beauty includes ornamented pins or brooches richly decorated with glass inlay, filigree, flitter pendants. These jewels used to decorated costume and headgear. On the first hand we should mention a pair of brooches with cross and dove decoration (fig. 1:1-2; fig. 2:1-2). I succeeded in finding only a distant analogy of this object in the Dubovac/ Dunadombó Hoard (fig. 7). The pair of brooches in the shape of an 8-sided star (fig. 3: 1-2; fig. 4: 1 -2) and a similar single piece (fig. 5:1-2) have a precise analogy in the collection of the Hungarian National Museum. Unfortunately, its provenance is unknown, (fig. 6). Breast-brooches from Tomasevas/Tamáslaka can be related to the pieces from Ada only from the point of view of their decorative elements, but the shape is different (fig. 7). Decorative elements of the Ada brooches are the following: square shaped glass inlay, filigree circle net, small cylinders and flitter pendants. This or that element was in fashion in Kosovo or the Serbian territories, but together they were characteristic only for jewels from the second half of the 17 t h century that were found north of the Lower Danube. I suggest their workshop somewhere in the triangle of the Danube, Tisza and the Romanian border. In my opinion these objects were not brought from the southern parts of Serbia to the region of the former Hungarian border or north of it, but the Serbian jewellers themselves moved to the north. Settling north of the Lower Danube, they formed a unique type of ornamented pinsbrooches on the basis of their professional knowledge and taking into consideration the fashion of the new environment. Beside this, they produced disc-shaped earring-temple decorations. Perhaps the further examination of the pieces from the Ada Hoard will give an answer to the question where all these took place. 276
