Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 27 (1982) (Pécs, 1983)

Régészet - Maráz Borbála: Le Tene-kori leletek Jugoszláviából és Romániából magyarországi múzeumokban

LA TÈNE-KORI LELETEK 111 1. ADA (Ada, Jugoslavia) 3. OSIJEK (Eszék, Jugoslavia) A number of graves were found in the brickyards situated both on the southern and northern border of the village in different times around 1903 and 1906. Most of the graves are from the Sarmatian Age, it was in 1906 when Celtic finds were brought to the museum in Szeged.

2 No further data relating to these finds are known. 1. Iron spear-head, folded, with sharply bevelled mid-rib (PI. Ifl.). 2. Fragment of an iron sword with narrow blade bent more than once (PI. 1/2.). 3. Fragment of an iron sword with narrow blade bent in U - shape (PI. II./l.). 4. Fragments of an iron umbo (Pl. II/2-3.). 5. Iron „Hiebmesser" handle curved downwards, the back of the blade is straight (Pi. 1/3.). 6. Iron „Hiebmesser", handle curved downwards with spherical knob on it. 2. BATINA (Kiskőszeg, Jugoslavia) a) The Museum of Pécs acquired La Tène finds among other objects from H. Bátor in the years 1911. and 1914. No data of the find-spots.

3 1. Fragment of a bronze bracelet with two hollow segments (Pl. III/5.). The whole bracelet must have consisted of 7-12 small segments. 2. Fragment of a bronze bracelet made in filigree technique (Pl. III/3.). 3. Fragment of a piece of an astragaloid belt (Pl. III/4). b) The Pécs Museum bought two parts of two different astragaloid belts and other finds. They were found in the quarry at Kiskőszeg (Batina)

4 (Pl. Ш/1-2). c) The Pécs Museum acquired various objects found in the Mersers' vineyard at Kiskőszeg (Batina). All the finds have been inventarized as „Celtic grave-goods" although only two of them can be dated to the La Tène period (the other objects are from the Late Bronze Age).

5 The La Tène is represented by two bracelet-fragments belonging to two different examples of the same type of hollow, sheet-bronze on clay bracelets (Pl. LTI/6-7). A Celtic bowl together with finds from the Roman period was sold by A. Plely to the Pécs Museum in 1916. The bowl had been found in Osijek (Eszék). Without further data (Pl. II/4, V/2).

6 4. BRANJINA (Baranyakisfalud, Jugoslavia) The Archaeological Society of Pécs and Baranya county presented two LT iron knives to the Pécs Museum. Both had come to light in Branjina (Bárány akisfalud)-Sudenac (Pl. III/8-9).

7 5. VARSAND (Gyulavarsánd, Rumania) a) A Celtic urn has been found in P. Hrabovszky's garden in the ploughed layer. Its body is of ovoid shape, the shoulder is ornamented with graphite-painted lines (Pi. V/l.). Below the urn, about 60 cm deeper a skeleton was found with the remains of a bowl. Around the neck the fragments of a bronze torque were found. The torque has been lost since, the founders' report stressed that there were a double torque found, the two torques connected with iron. Hona Hunyady suggested only one torque consisting of 17 hollow segments it may well have consisted of two parts - a torque with 8 hollow segments and another with 9 segments.

8-9 b) Gyulavarsánd-Lapos- (or Lopós-)-halom was excavated by Nándor Krammer in the years 1902 and 1903. There were 3 LT vessels found on the site which is a well known Bronze Age settlement. No stratigraphie data are known.

11 1. Wheel-made bowl with omphalos (Pl. IV/4, V/3.). 2. Wheel-made urne with blackpolished („glazed") surface resembling a metall-vessel (Pl. IV/5, V/4.). 3. Wheel-made jug (PI. IV/3, V/5.). c) It was the Laposhalom-site where two fragmentary iron knives were also found. No further data are known, the two knives were sold to the Békéscsaba Museum in 1903 (Pl. IV/l-2.).