Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis. – Alba Regia. Az István Király Múzeum Évkönyve. 23. 1984-1985 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: C sorozat (1987)
Tanulmányok – Abhandlungen - Biró Mária, T.: Gorsium bone carvings. p. 25–63.
Mg. 20. Scenes representing Amor figures from Gorsium and the Collection of San Donato pins and of the bone-carvings which came to light in the vicinity of the Indian comb, the place of these finds was not later than the middle of the 2nd century. The figures of the Indus latrunctdorum, the plum stone-headed pin, the pin decorated with the double disc were made in the later period, probably in the fourth century. В u 1 d i n g VII (Figs. 172—203; 204—213) A separate, vast hall made part of the area sacra from the west. It was built at the time of Hadrianus and was suitable to accommodate several hundred people. The uncovered wall on the south side of the building was found hardly one spitdeep and the cultural layer was not beyond fifty cm. This layer was, at least, 3 m on the north side. After the building having been destroyed there had again been building activity on this site in the fourth century. In the NE end of the hall the semi-finished bone works increase and there is substantial waste material left over from the production. Z s. Bánki, on the basis of the finds, found evidence outside the hall wall to determine the bone carving workshop.( 3 ) The workshop started production after the years 260. Most of the carvings of different shape and design scattered all over the site of the hall must have been the product of this workshop. Based on the bracelet and on the regularities and interconnection that can be followed up throughout the settlement, I would date this workshop to the first half of the fourth century. Some finds arc, however, early and were used during the time when the area sacra still existed. At the north side of the hall stood an altar, reached by brick steps. Beside burnt corn and other sacrificial remains a piece of ivory relief was found, showing Amor representations. It may have decorated the side of ointment box used for the sacrifices (PI. 10a). Similar carvings —Amor figures busy at different works in a framed field —are known from Zara, from the collection of S. Donato (Plate 10b). The perforated bone disc (Fig. 174) found in the vicinity of the relief, the lid of the narthecium described at the nympheum, and the bottom part of such a jar type appeared 15—20 cm diagonally from this lid; probably they belonged together (Fig. 176). Hairpins are far more difficult to date. Compared to the great amount of pin material found along the line of shops (3) My thankes for help and verbal communication of Zsuzsanna Bánki. 42
