Fitz Jenő (szerk.): Religions and Cults in Pannonia. Exhibiton an Székesfehérvár, Csók István Gallery 15 May - 30 September 1996 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: A. sorozat 33. (1998)

85. Mercurius Youthful Mercurius is standing on his right leg whilst his left is placed behind it and rotated to the left. He is dressed in a long paenula, clasped on the right shoulder and open at both sides. It covers the right hand and reaches below the elbow and reaches down as far as the ankles. On the front and the rear the cloak is accented by triangular creases and in front, below the chin, it forms a v-neck. His face is emphasized by eye sockets, nose and mouth. Short hair allows the ears to be visible and on his head he wears apetasus with engraved wings which follow the shape of the hat. His wings are visible on both sides of his bare feet and on top of the caduceus which he holds in his left hand. In the palm of his right hands he holds a purse (marsupium). - lst-2nd century A.D. - H: 6,3 cm; bronze - Stari Jankovci - ZAM, Inv. no. 4637. BRUNáMID 1913/1914, 221, no. 31, fig. 31; REINACH 1924, 75, fig. 5; TADIN 197, 16-17, no. 25, T. XV, 24. A.R-M. 86. Bust of Mercurius The stylized bust of youthful Mercurius shows him with a triangular flattened head. The face is defined by a small mouth, drooping at the edges, a nose and large, almondshaped eyes with protruding bags which are emphasized with slanting etched lines under strongly accented eyebrows. The chin is pointed and the ears have been treated plastically. On his head he wears a hat with flaps (petasus) which leaves the ears free. The neck is elongated. His attire is shown by shallow concentric circles and a cloak visible on either side of the neck. The bust is part of a hollow and perforated cylindrical attachment which was placed onto the ends of the lever in a scale (steelyard). - lst-2nd century A.D. - H: 6,4 cm; bronze - Surduk (Rittium) - ZAM, Inv. no. 4613. BRUNSMID 1913/1914, 222-223, no. 34, fig. 34; REINACH 1924, 73, no. 3; TADIN 1979, 37, no. 96, T. XXXVIII, 92a. A.R-M. 87. Votive relief of Liber and Libera White marble relief, between the figures of Liber and Libera stands a leopard. In the hand of the deities a thyrsos each, on the head a corymbos. The inscription is the following: Leibern (!) \ Liber(a)e Mamilia \ Firmina v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(eritis). -1st half of the 3rd century - 50x15x8 cm. - Bodrog-Törökdomb - RRM, Inv. no. 50.13.1. SZ. BURGER 1991, 73, Nr. 10, 7. P.N. 88. Statue head of Hygieia Marble portrait of the goddess of Health. Roman copy after a Hellenstic original. The loose hair-do is pressed down, diadem-like, by a double ribbon. The eyes look upwards, the lips are open. An extraordinary exquisite, graceful elaboration. - 2nd century A.D. - H: 22 cm. - Budapest; it came to light from the sand of the Danube when the foundation of the Parliament was laid. - MNM, Inv. no. 116.1887.2. HEKLER 1908a, 231-238; HEKLER 1928, no. 158; M. NAGY 1992, 128, 173, no. 55. M.Na. 79