Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis. – Alba Regia. Az István Király Múzeum Évkönyve. 17. 1976 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: C sorozat (1978)
Közlemények – Mitteilungen - O’Connor, B. — Mozsolics A.: Remarks on Rigsee Swords. p. 185–189.
Omega shape. Finally, the Toronto sword is longer, 69.0 cm ; J. H a m p e 1 recorded the length of the Buzita sword as 65.4 cm (1892, 19). Professor Kühn has kindly confirmed that he has no additional information concerning the provenance of the Toronto sword and we may be certain that the Oxford sword belongs to the hoard from Buzita, now Buzica, Bez. Kosice, Slovakia, only a couple of kilometres north of the Hungarian border. The decoration on the shoulders of the Oxford and Toronto swords appears to be distinctive and Mozsolics has suggested that it may be related to the ornament of the Ragály type (1976 14); the same pattern appears on a sword in the hoard from Szuhafő (ibid. Taf. IV, 2), less than 50 km southwest of Buzica, so the find-spot of the Toronto sword was probably within this area of north-eastern Hungary and south-eastern Slovakia. Oxford B. O'Connor Two Hungarian Riegsee Swords In the archaeological literature of the last century remarks are available concerning the bronze sword from Zalacsány. There is an entry about it in the inventory of the Hungarian National Museum: „37/1867. Including its grip a 21" long copper sword, the grip consists of interwinning tiny circular decoration. Donation from Pál Pruzsinszky, an engineer from Zala county. Found in Zala county near Csány during the digging of the new bed for the Zala river, in a depth of 9' ". According to the description this must be a Riegsee sword. 21" — if Viennese inch is meant hereby — is equal to about 55 cm. The sword had been brought to surface from a depth of 9'. Nine feet make almost 3 m. Attempts to identify the sword in the prehistoric collection of the Hungarian National Museum have so far been unsuccesful. It may be either lost, or would have to be looked for among the examples, which were inventorized as coming from unknown sites. Flóris Römer is the first to make mention of it (1867, 184). According to József Hampelit resembles to the Buzita sword (1877, 49). In accordance with the description of the inventory in the Hungarian National Museum the type can be well-established (Mozsolics, 1976, 13 — 14; also cf. the description of B. O'Connor). So far this has been the only Riegsee sword known from Transdanubia. Further to the south, from Croatia, mention can be made of a sword fragment, with the grip-section lozenge-shaped in the centre, which belongs to the bronze hoard from Bingula-Divos and which falls within the group of Riegsee-Ragály swords (VINSKI —GASPAEINI 1973 pi. 84, 3). This find can be brought in connection with the hoards of 187
