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Tisicum XVIII.

László Madaras

Archaeological finding from the age of the Hungarian conquest at Tiszasüly-Éhhalom

In the summer of 1980 just outside Tiszasüly, some graves dating back to the era of the Hungarian conquest were unearthed in a sand-pit. The findings that presumably belonged to two separate graves could not be observed and documented in their original locations. It was only the location of one of the graves that could be identified with considerable accuracy. Approximately 100-150 metres from this site, archaeologist László Selmeczi unearthed several graves from the same period on Éhhalom, that Is where the disc showing the reticulated figure of a horseman, published by István Fodor, comes from.

From the finding gathered together later, it appears that the warrior of the conquest era was buried with his complete weaponry, his decorated belt, and his horse. The findings of the Tiszasüly grave organically fit into the archaeological

findings of the 10th century unearthed in the middle of the Hungarian Plain. By now, we can state with great probability that the outlines of a new typological group start to emerge in this region that differentiates from the findings of both the Upper and the Lower Tisza region.

The author of this paper ascertains that several elements of the sabre of the findings unearthed near Gnadendorf in Austria, published by László Révész, can also be attached to this typological group. The parallels of the hammered ornaments of the Gnadendorf sabre, the formal similarity of the two objects, and the ornaments of the palmetta also show close relationships. The author brings up the possibility that the Gnadendorf sabre was made in a workshop operating somewhere the middle region of the Hungarian Plain.

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