Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis. – Alba Regia. A Szent István Király Múzeum Évkönyve. 32. 2002 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: C sorozat (2003)
Tanulmányok – Abhandlungen - Harsányi Eszter–Kurovszky Zsófia: Theoretical reconstruction of a room from the 3rd century A.D., excavated in Tác/Gorsium, based on information gathered during the excavation and the restoring process of the wall-painting fragments (Preliinary report). p. 35–42.
Fig. 1. RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ROOM The processing of the wall-painting finding was restarted in 1998. 5 With observations made during restoration as well as studying the findings yet to be restored and the documentation of the excavation, bit by bit the location of the painted fragments relative to each other could be deducted. As a result, the compositional system of the decoration of the ancient room could be outlined. However, the processing of the excavated material has not completed yet, and therefore there are questions regarding the original appearance of the room, which are not answered yet. During systemization the flat fragments belonging to the sidewalls, and the arched ones belonging to the ceiling could be well distinguished. Based on the arching direction of the latter it can be concluded that the room was covered with a barrel vault. The exact arch of the vault is not yet determined, but after assembling of larger surfaces this question might also be cleared. At the With the support of the Nemzeti Kulturális Alapprogram (National Cultural Base Program, Hungary) the fragments are systemized and the assembled surfaces are restored by the authors. moment the height of the walls is still uncertain but possibly it will also be established later on. The original appearance of the ceiling, the eastern, the northern and the western walls and the location and size of the major structural elements of the wall-paintings are outlined quite well. Information regarding the southern wall, with the sole entrance of the room, proved not to be enough yet to even imagine the appearance of the wall. DECORATION OF THE WALLS A 1 Roman foot high dado around the room is painted with decorative marble imitation. Among the black strokes of the brush regressing into themselves red and green spots alternate, irregularly shaped on the white background. (Plate V., Fig. 4.) The wide red fields above the dado are separated by narrow, mostly axially symmetrical candelabra panels, primarily with floral motifs painted on black background. The colours and depiction of the candelabra form one unit within each field. In the red fields there is a narrow inner 42
