Véri Dániel (szerk.): A Ferenczy Múzeumi Centrum Évkönyve - Studia Comitatensia 35. (Szentendre, 2017)
Régészet - Boruzs Katalin: Római kőfaragványok a Mátyás Király Múzeum gyűjteményében
BORUZS KATALIN: RÓMAI KŐFARAGVANYOK A MÁTYÁS KIRÁLY MÚZEUM GYŰJTEMÉNYÉBEN Katalin Boruzs ROMAN STONE FRAGMENTS IN THE KING MATHIAS MUSEUM’S COLLECTION The lapidarium at Visegrád, consisting mainly of medieval carved stones, was established after Imre Henszl- mann’s excavations of the castle between 1871-1878. Currently, only 45 pieces of the 7000-piece collection are from the Roman period. Among the stone fragments unearthed in Visegrád, only two (!) have actual references to the location of their creation and usage: these are the construction panels of the late Roman watchtowers. Further fragments include pieces of funerary monuments, altars, and buildings from the 2nd—3rd centuries, originating from secondary usage. Based on their depictions and inscriptions, the sites of their original erection were probably in North-Eastern Pannónia. A more precise localization was aided by the proximity of the Danube, the camp names visible on the inscriptions, observations carried out on one of the sculpture heads from Lepence and on the statue torso from Aquincum. According to these, their place of origin might have been the region of Aquincum and Ulcisia, from where they got to Visegrád during the constructions between 340-370. In the course of the 10th—11th centuries, during the creation of the count (comes) center, they were probably reused as building material or as gravestones in the cemetery. In the middle of the 13th century, after the destruction of the center at the Sibrik hill, the stones were taken to be used at the wall system of the new fortification at Alsóvár. The ruined tower was used as a “stone mine” for the buildings of the current town, mostly for the decoration of houses. Consequently, this assemblage allows us to draw conclusions about the life of the wider environment rather than about the local settlement. On votive altars the names of Iuppiter, Iuno, of the couple Liber-Libera, Silvanus Silvestris, Minerva and Hercules are legible. The construction panel from Lepence and the recarved statue heads, undoubtedly aiming to depict portraits of emperors enlisted on the panel, can be regarded as monuments of the imperial cult. The other group of the collection consists of architectural bands, which cannot be connected to specific buildings a priori. ”1316 third group consists of funerary monuments: the assemblage of the fragments allows us the assumption that the main targets of secondary stone usage were neglected graveyards and cemeteries. (translated by Agnes Drosztmér) 152
