Somogyi Múzeumok Közleményei 13. (1998)

Csizmadia Gábor: A kaposvári Rippl-Rónai Múzeum római kori üvegleletei

112 The Roman glass founds of the Rippl-Rónai Museum at Kaposvár GÁBOR CSIZMADIA The Roman Collection of Rippl-Rónai Museum of Kaposvár originates from one of the most densely populated inner regions of the province Pannónia. Conveniently close to important routes and in safe distance from the military zones of the limes, a number of fourishing settlements developed along the river Kapos and its by-streams, and in the neighbourhood of the roads. Their relative prosperity is sufficiently indicated by the glass vessels often popping up among finds. Not only the quantity of glass, but also occasionally its choice finennes and uniqueness mean some important information concerning the research of the Late Imperial civilization and trade of the area. By assembling a glass catalogue further help can be provided for answering the question how the romanized territory surrounded by the Balaton and the Zselic-hills integrated in the provincial system. As it is obvious from the catalogue, most glass finds at the Museum's disposal come from two major Late Imperial cemeteries: Ságvár-Tömlöchegy and Somogyszil-Dögkuti-Dűlő. The types and the dating are also basically determined by this fact. The richest finds of the first two thirds and the entire third of the Ságvár cemetery are the property of the National Museum of Hungary. This, then, as regards of the material yet to be found in Kaposvár, means that the results of the still unfinished cemetery excavations can only fragmentarily appear in the analysis. Further difficulties were caused by the fact that the 1966 publication of the cemetery had itself to rely on a defective documentation which had survived the war and several decades in dusty storage rooms. During registration and drawing up the inventory, however, quite a few finds, which were believed to be lost, were put back to their places.