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Vékonyné Vadász Éva: Kora vaskori halomsír Tata határában

phenomenon in the eastern Alpine region and the symbolic deposition of weights in graves is not a frequent phenomenon in Transdanubia either. The greatest problem for the author is, however, that the weights are not conical, which was the common shape in the eastern Alpine region. She searched for analogues in the Hungarian Urnfield material after Griebl's remark that the discoid weights came from the Urnfield culture, but without success. So she disputes Griebl's remark and suggests that the early Iron Age weaving techniques and tools could be borrowed in Transdanubia from the Lausitz culture. Nevertheless she argues that weaving itself embodied the ritual concept of a Mediterranean origin observed in the entire Alpine region, citing first of all the weaving scene on the urn of grave no. 27 of Sopron and its interpretation with reference to the recent literature on the ritual aspects. Based on the above, the author supposes that a "priestess" carrying out sacral activity (an oracle?) was buried in the grave. In her view it is strongly linked with the close environment of the Tata grave, namely the Fényes, the nearby lukewarm spring and the entire waterlogged, swampy region. Thus she thinks that the region of the Fényes spring could be and actually was a holy grove in the early Iron Age. It is, accordingly, needless to look for a large central settlement and the accompanying tumulus cemetery in this region. Only a few tumuli similar to the above-described one can be expected. The author finds that the area should be surveyed with modern instruments but she did not have the opportunity. The author thinks that the tumulus is important because of its rare ritual context. Its significance is increased by the age the author determined (beginning of the HD 1) since there are only a few unearthed and published finds from this period in Transdanubia. 128