Istvánovits Eszter (szerk.): A nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum Évkönyve 55. (Nyíregyháza, 2013)
A 2010. október 11-14. között Nyíregyházán és Szatmárnémetiben megtartott Vándorló és letelepült barbárok a kárpáti régióban és a szomszédos területeken (I-V. század) Új leletek, új értelmezések című nemzetközi régészeti konferencia anyagai - Sorin Bulzan: Császárkori (II-III. századi) telep a Berettyó völgyében Margine/Széltalló, "Valea Tániei-Tarina+ (Bihar megye, Románia)
Migration period finds from Margum: a possible interpretation More interesting for us are the analogous finds from the vicinity of Margum. The finds from the nearby foederati settlement at Svetinja by Viminacium, narrowly dated by Byzantine coins to the third quarter of the 6th century, are of the same character (Popovic 1988. Fig. 17: 1,4, 6-7). Pots of this type have also been found in the cemetery of Kamenovo, grave 2; in the Veliki Gradac settlement and other sites along the Danube border (Simoni 1978. 209-233, PI. Ill: 1-2). The burnished ceramic bottle (Fig. 3: 2) resembles the finds from Gépid cemeteries at Szolnok-Szanda, grave 170 (Bóna-Nagy 2002. 225, PI. 50: 2, PI. 106: 2) and Szőreg-Téglagyár, grave 113 (Nagy 2005b. 191, PI. 62: 3, PI. 100: 4). Although not numerohailo Milinkovic such arguments were put forward in a more restrained manner (Milinkovic 2010. 241). That attribution has been offered even in the titles of articles by Ljubica Zotovic (1994.) and Mladjan Cunjak (1992), while the above-mentioned finds from Svetinja were also attributed to the Gepids (Popovic 1988.). In the case of Margum, however, Milinkovic accepts this attribution only with reservations. The same is true of the possibility that the finds should be dated after 567 (Milinkovic 2005. 213-214). In the light of the above mentioned interpretation of the appliqué from Margum, which we seriously doubt, the question is whether the finds from Margum attest to a Northern Germanic presence? The most thoroughly studied find from that context coming from the Balkans is the wellknown grave from Ulpiana. It has been dated to the middle of the 6th century and attributed, with caution, to a deceased woman of Herulic origin (Milinkovic 2003.). It is hard to compare the values of the contexts of the finds from Ulpiana and from Margum situated on the frontier and populated with foederati. If they were recruited from the Gepids, as commonly believed, then we should bear in mind that the findings of the objects of Northern Germanic origin, especially brooches, are not that rare in their territories. While the Ulpiana grave was connected to the North Germanic newcomers to the Empire, findings of objects of such origin from Byzantine forts on the Danube may be, in respect of the traditional views, interpreted by the links that Gepids had with Northern Germanic populations before they became Byzantine mercenaries. If this was so, the Ulpiana find could represent a testimony to fending that section of the Danube limes in the turbulent times of the 6th century. The traditional view is that the relatively numerous finds of Germanic provenance in the Balkans, both from the Danube frontier and from the inside of the Peninsula, belonged to the Gepids (Simoni 1978. 214, Milinkovic 1998. 253, Quast 2001.441, Abb. 1), even though in the recent monograph of Mi-Fig. 4 1: Kasidol: a stray find, 2-3: Viminacum: finds from the cemetery (after Ivanisevic et al. 2006.) 4. kép 1: Kasidol: szórvány, 2-3: Viminacum, sírleletek (Ivanisevic et al. 2006. alapján) 471
