Majorossy Judit: A Ferenczy Múzeum régészeti gyűjteményei - A Ferenczy Múzeum kiadványai, D. sorozat: Múzeumi füzetek - Kiállításvezetők 5. (Szentendre, 2014)
Farkas Zoltán: Avarok kora
bone combs were also made in local provincial workshops, but their fashion spread due to Germanic influence. (Since it was not typical of the Huns to wear combs, most probably one of those groups of people chased by the Huns brought with them this new fashion style.) In the workshops of Pannonia the originally Barbarian forms of these combs were already decorated with the dotted circles and punched motifs. On a extant comb from Páty a zoomorphic representation can be seen. The bilateral or the bone combs with semicircular handles were the most common types. Such bone combs are known from the military colonies at Leányfalu and Szentendre, as well as from a civil settlement at Biatorbágy of Roman surroundings. In Budakalász and Páty, however, they were found in distinct grave groups, in the graves of a woman and her daughter dated to the first half and to the middle of the 5th century. Some of the jewels, however, were explicitly worn by Attila’s Huns in the middle third of the 5th century. Such as, for example, the small, rounded silver buckles for belts and boots, with their thorn bending over the body of the buckle (the poor wore the bronze ones). Though belt buckles were also found in the graves of Late Roman men, they were of different shapes. Nevertheless, Roman women never wore belts. This change of costume was in close connection with the transformation of lifestyle. Among the Eastern pastoralist, nomadic people belts and the tools hanging down from these belts (such as knives or sets of fire lighting implements) formed integral parts of both female and male costumes. Both sexes wore trousers, and they strapped up their bootlegs above their ankles and the belts around their waist in a similar way. Sometimes even weapons were put into the graves, such as, for example, an iron dagger in Budakalász. A Roman oil lamp with Christogram was found in a plundered tomb of the Hun period at the number 6 site in Ecser. Next to the lamp two earrings inlaid with precious stones and with polyhedral endings were placed into the grave. Around this time, coins rarely date the findings. During the 5th century mainly the latest Valentinianus bronze coins were still circulated. One perforated piece was worn around the neck of a Germanic girl from Budakalász. These new types of materials presented above from the beginning of the 5th century cannot be connected to only one single people any more. The wide spread of some of these finds shows that these objects were commonly used on larger territories by more peoples roughly at the same time. The Romans during their coexistence with the Barbarians, as a fashion took over the usage of certain jewels rather soon, but also the settled Barbarians started wearing Roman jewels at some point. This is the main reason why it is so difficult to separate from each other the surviving Roman, the new Foederati, the neighbouring Sueb or the Hun findings. The mixing of the different jewels and costumes had lasted in Pannonia as well as within the entire territory of the Carpathian Basin from around 380 until the end of the rule of the Huns. The circumstances of the excavation of these objects, their stratigraphic positions, their connections to the Roman buildings and cemeteries can solve this problem of embroilment. 53 Delfines csontfésű / Bone comb with zoomorphic representation Hunkori ékszerek temetőkből / Hunic jewels from cemeteries
