A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 28. (Békéscsaba, 2006)

Gábor Gabriella: „Párta”-belts (ornamented belts) in Békés county from the Middle Ages

Gábor Gabriella SZATMÁRI 1996b Szatmári I.: Örménykút-3. sz. lh., Décsi Telek-halom. RégFüz, 47. (1996) 82-83. SZATMÁRI 1999 Szatmári L: A középkori Csorvás és temploma. BMMK, 20. (1999) 83-111. „Párta"-belts (ornamented belts) in Békés county from the Middle Ages - Gabriella Gábor Resume Belts as well as buttons and hooks were supplementaries of clothing in the middle ages. One type of these belts was „párta"-belt that could be worn by women, men and children as well. During the excavations in the cemeteries around the churches in Békés county they found numerous accessories of „párta"-belts out of metal and bone. One type of „párta „-belts is called ribbon-belt and is weaved from flax-, silk-, and metallic thread. These belts were clipped together with bone-turned and cast-bronze braces and hooks.(Pic.l, 1-7) The other type of the „párta"-belts is the ribbon-belt with bone accessoires. These belts were decorated with carved and turned flats of bone and buckles. (Pic.

2-4) The third type of „párta"-belts are the ones that are decorated with ornaments and buckles. These are especially well decorated, gothic „I" letters, inscriptions, roses on the entire surface, quadrangular ornaments and rivets serve as decoration. (Pic. 5-12) The most beautiful „párta"-belts were found in those graves where the deceased was wearing a headdress. The shape of the ornaments and the way the belts were decorated is similar (or even the same in some cases ) to the belt decorations found in other parts of the country. Gábor Gabriella Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum H-5600 Békéscsaba, Széchenyi u. 9. E-mail: gabo@bmmi. hu 130