A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve 2014., Új folyam 1. (Szeged, 2014)

RÉGÉSZET - Szalontai Csaba - Benedek András - Károly László: A Kiskundorozsma Kettőshatár úti II. avar temető 434. sírja

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RRATA A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve 2014 (Új folyam 1.) kötetben található hibák jegyzéke 4. p. – A lektorok felsorolásából hiányzik Szalontai Csaba neve 163. p. – A 12. sz. lábjegyzet szövege helyesen: A Móra Ferenc Múzeum kötelességének érzi, hogy lehetőséget

biztosítson az ásatásvezetőknek a leletek közlésére. A császárportrés övveret korábbi publikálása körül kialakult

vita folytatásának a továbbiakban nem kívánun

k helyet adni. A szerkesztők 206. p. – Első hasáb kiegészítése:

[...] The trench was originally used as a trial trench, showing the conscious intention of the riflers. We reported in detail also about the research process of the belt fitting with a Caesarportrait. At the end of 2005, Falko Daim (RGZM) asked Csaba Szalontai to publish the find in the journal Archäologischen

Korrespondenzblatt, at the same time suggesting technological examination with his contributing participation. The cooperative work started, but Csaba Szalontai lost his job in the museum at the end of 2006. After this, without the permission of the excavation leaders, Gábor Lőrinczy took the find in u

tmost secrecy to Mainz, to Falko Daim. The excavation leaders protested against this proceeding in an official letter, informing Gábor

Lőrinczy and Falko Daim that they did not give their consent for the lending, examination and publication of the

unpublis

hed find. Nonetheless, Falko Daim neglected both their first and their successive letters and published on two occasions the belt fitting with a Caesarportrait found in grave No 434. Falko Daim neglected not only the statements of the excavation leaders b

ut also their scientific rights for processing archaeological finds. His primary aim was to have the description of this most remarkable Byzantine

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Avar find linked to his name, and by bending the written and unwritten rules of the profession he published t

he results. His proceeding is without precedent in both national and international archaeology. The case was legally clarified by the Disciplinary Board of the Hungarian Archaeological Association, which stated that the fitting was not published in the ti

me of lending; consequently, Gábor Lőrinczy and Falko Daim infringed the excavating archaeologists’ rights for

research and publication. Beyond the legal consequences, the case also involves scientific and science ethical aspects. The most serious offence a researcher may commit against their fellow researcher is using their scientific results illegally. In our case, the offence is even more serious since our results were used and published in spite of our explicit protest. The significance of offences comm

itted against fellow researchers is dwarfed by that of those committed against the subject or the means of scientific research. If an archaeologist, with the aim of getting his name connected to the publication of a particular find, is ready to deliberatel

y remove the find from its original scientific context, this way breaking the unity of the information of which the find in question is a coherent part, commits the most serious offence that may be committed in the field of archaeological research. The Ex

hibition in Schallaburg had been prepared since 2007, and Falko Daim planned to lend the belt fitting to the exhibition over the head of the excavation leaders. When in 2011, due to the change in the management of the museum in Szeged, this was not possibl

e any longer; he tried to get hold of the find by pretending an intention of cooperation 26 hours before the catalogue was closed. In fact, they already knew that the belt fitting with a Caesarportrait would be published under the name of Falko Daim inste

ad of Csaba Szalontai. Since their fraudulent plan was unveiled, it became clear that the organizers did not intend to respect the rights of the excavating archaeologists; consequently, lacking their declaration of consent, the Móra Ferenc Museum desisted

from lending the find to the exhibition. The Cemetery Nr. II at Kettőshatár Street is different from the neighbouring Cemetery Nr. I, at the same

time differing also from the common features of Late Avar Age cemeteries. [...] A szerkesztők