A Debreceni Déri Múzeum Évkönyve 1966-1967 (Debrecen, 1968)

M. Nepper Ibolya: Szkíta kori leletek a Déri Múzeumból (Adatközlés)

Ibolya Nepper M. Scythian Finds in the Déri Museum (Publication of data) Scythian finds of the Carparthian Basin and in particular the territory of Hungary have been investigated by Mihály Párducz, who made a thorough examination of the material found at Artánd. The archeological interpretation of these finds is greatly encumbered by the lack of a comprehensive work cataloguing all the finds from this age and also by the fact that most of the finds from this age were taken from unofficial excavations. Only in a few cases could the finds be saved by archeologists during the excavations. In this paper the author hopes to make Scythian finds accessible to those interested in the age. She gives the description of 4 three-edged socketed bronze arrowheads all found before 1940. The following finds, taken probably from tombs at Artánd-Zomlin in 1952. are also described : 8 cast bronze rings with 4 little handles 6 cast oval bronze rings, 2 of them grooved on the surface 1 hexagonal cast bronze object with grooved decoration on the surface and a hole in thee centre 1 porous, arenaceous grinding stone broken into two pieces f

. At Hajdúnánás Tedej a Scythian cremation grave was found in autumn 1956. The following material was brought to the Museum: an unidentifiable urn the lid of an urn 15 three-edged, socketed bronze arrow heads A third corpus of finds from Hajdúdorog (spring 1966) is also described. It is a human skeleton lying in N-S direction, found during the building of a tobacco drying-shed. The tomb also contained the following items: an iron knife, a spindle-shaped button, a broken bronze-mirror which revealed after restoration subsequent repairs, a bronze spiral reel and an amber bead. The Scythian finds of Hungary can be dated to the middle of the 6th century, i.e. the earlier period of the Scythian age. This applies mainly to the finds of Artánd-Zomlin, where the girl's headdress and the grinding stone reveal a connection with Transylvania, the starting point of the mid-6th century Scythian invasion. There exist other finds that confirm the route of the Scythian invasion from the North of the Caucasus through Moldavia and the Ukraine. 5 Déri Múzeum Évkönyve 65