Kisné Cseh Julianna – Somorjai József szerk.: Komárom – Esztergom Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 5. (Tata, 1997)
Maróti Éva: Sealed Vessel Fragments in Komárom-Esztergom County from the ????
Sealed Vessel Fragments in Komárom-Esztergom County from the Romun Times Éva Maróti The present article will work up the finds of the former Dorog and Esztergom districts from the eastern part of Komárom-Esztergom county. This is the collecting area of the Balassa Bálint Museum from Esztergom. 1 The western part of the country - the former Komárom and Tata districts - Brigetio (Szőny) and its surroundings will be presented in another study. In the present article this material will be used as a parallel. 2 When describing and reviewing the findspots we took over the data of the archeological inventory appeared in 1979. The names and the numbering of the findspots were taken from there, too. The 114 scraps reviewed in this article were found at 18 findspots. The findspots of 2 scraps are unknown. The most common vessel form is Drag 37 and its variants, mainly the grey ones, more rarely the yellow, the orange or the brick-red ones with bright surface 157 motives appear on the scraps altogether and there are only a few that appear on more pieces - so on this basis it is difficult to identify the workshops or the craftsmen. The dominating pattern is the vegetal one - and within this the motives representing leaves - but there are stylized geometrical and animal motives, too. The order of the ornaments on the sealed Pannonian vessels downwards - on the pattern of the sigillatas usually begins with a dentated engraving or with a stripe decorated with leaves (spikes). On 35 scraps there are dentated engravings and on only 11 there are garlands of leaves. 234 The dentated engraving - up to our present observations - is characteristic for the products of the workshops from Western Pannónia, Gorsium and Brigetio. The leaf garland (motives 1-9) is taken from the terra sigillatas 235240 and this is a typical ornament of the vessels from Eastern Pannónia. The first and the second motives - the threefold leaflets - are the nearest to the sigillata prototypes. The odd thing about one of them is that it is not placed on the outer part of the vessel but on the inner rim. The origin of the curved figures (motives 10-24) can also be traced back to the terra sigillatas 241242 and in our opinion this motive originates from the simplification of the U-shaped leaf garland that appears on the very early terra sigillatas. These set in frame leaves 243 , rosettes 244 and animals 245 just like on the sealed vessels. The vertical separating fields (motives 25-36) are generally applied alternately with the motives mentioned before, and sometimes both motives appear on the same seal (motives 23-24). Their origin can be traced back to the terra sigillata, too: among the Ushaped garlands there are some down-hanging ornaments as well. The egg324
