Agria 41. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2005)

Domboróczki László: A háromszögletű AVK-fejek szimbolikája

Moving beyond the ALP period our conclusions may perhaps make it easier to assess the extent of the local inheritance that led on to the sculpture of the Tisza Culture.

58 Wherever one looks one sees the same fertility symbols, whether it is the triangular altar with its birth-giving pose from Hódmezővásárhely (Table 6. ill. 4.), the sexually explicit Hódmezővásárhely Venus (Table 6. ills. 1-2.), the Sickle God from Szegvár with its triangular mask (Table 6. ill. 3.), the hermaphrodite figurines from Szegvár,

59 or the bulls horns and triangular facial depictions from the sanctuary in Parta reminding one of Çatal Hüyük (Table 7. ills. 1-2.). The level of abstraction developed further towards the late Neolithic, becoming more complex and adding ever newer levels of significance to what already existed. Although this is not the time or the place to discuss the fascinating question of the further symbolic developments in any great detail we would simply like to mention that fertility played a central rôle in the Neolithic period right up to the very end, and that is something which can be seen in the finds. Just to finish we would like to say that it was not our intention to produce a comprehensive and exhaustive study of the symbolism of Neolithic figurines, although a work of that type may be of use in the near future. What we have done here is simply an attempt to examine the religious background of an interesting object type, and by doing so help to show that the symbolism of the ALP period can be traced back to the spirituality of the Körös Culture. IRODALOM - LITERATURE ANTUS Sándorné (ed.) 1994 The Times Atlasz. Régészet. Akadémiai kiadó, Budapest 1994. BÁNFFY Eszter 1991 Cult and Archeological Context in Middle and South-East Europe in the Neolithic and the Calcolithic. Antaeus 19-20. 183-249. Budapest. 2001 Notes on the Connection between Human and Zoomorphic Representations in the Neolithic. In: Biehl F. Peter-Bertemes François-Meller Harald (eds.): The Archaeology of Cult and Religion. Archaeolingua. 53-71. Budapest. 2002 Eine Tierfigur aus der Entstehungsphase der Bandkeramik. Antaeus 25. 205-219. Budapest. 58 Nándor KALICZ-Judit KOÓS 2000a. 21. 59 József KOREK 1987. 55. ill. 16. 30