Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis. – Alba Regia. Az István Király Múzeum Évkönyve. 15. 1974 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: C sorozat (1976)
Tanulmányok – Abhandlungen - Tóth I.: Two Misinterpreted Jupiter Dolidunus Relics from Pannonia Inferior. XV, 1974. p. 89–98.
As far as Aquincum is concerned both the historical an religious historical circumstances suggest that there mut have been a Dolichenus sanctuary in the town, probably in the military town. The small number of finds —as a special argumentum ex silentio — can be rightly interpreted precisely as proof of this ! The finds at the Carnuntum, Savaria, and Brigetio sanctuaries and those found along the Rhine provide sufficient proof that the relics of the Dolichenus sanctuaries are always found in one group, hidden either the ruined sanctuary itself or in its neighbourhood. Thus at places where scattered finds have been uncovered but not the sanctuary itself, we may well suppose that most of the finds are either not known yet, or have completely perished. As for the base in question it undoubtedly supported a statue originally and stood in a Dolichenum at Aquincum, which to the present day has not been found. The statue that it supported and the first line of the inscription containing the name of the deity must have perished when the sanctuary was ravaged, as were the inscribed finds of the Savaria Dolichenum( 66 ). Unfortunately the provenance of the base does not provide information as to where exactly the supposed Dolichenum was located in Aquincum( 67 ). Now in interpreting the inscription of the base, we can be sure that at the end of the second and at the beginning of the third centuries the elements of a population from northern Syria, discernible in several towns of Pannónia, were to be found among the population of Aquincum as well. Also this ethnic group certainly played a decisive role in introducting and propagating Syrian cults—that of Juppiter Dolichenus as well —in Aquincum too. /. Tóth Abréviations ЕРВО — Études préliminaires aux relagions orientales dans l'Empire Romain. (Leiden, Brill) Merlat Essai — P. MERLAT, Jupiter Dolichenus. Essai à" 'interpretation et de synthèse. Paris, 1960. Merlat Répertoire — P. MERLAT, Répertoire des inscriptions et monuments figurés du culte de Jupiter Dolichenus. Paris —Rennes, 1951. o. c, (66) I. TÓTH, о. с, AÉrt, XCVIII, 1971, 80,. ID. AArchHung, XXV, 1973. 111. (67) Cf. literature above in note № 47. The only basis for stating the place of origin of the find is that the Hungarian National Museum bought it from J. Szendrei together with a tomb fragment from Buda (Attila krt. 114.) cf. J. SZENDREI, AÉrt, XXII, 1902, 383.; G. ERDÉLYI, О. С, 145. 98
