Krisztin Ernő szerk.: Vasvármegye és Szombathely Város Kultúregyesülete és a Vasvármegyei Múzeum III. Évkönyve (Szombathely, 1929)

Annales Sabarienses - HORVÁTH, Tibor Antal: Excavations in Ondód

105 15- Altar zu Ehren des Hercules. Aufschrift: siehe ungar. Text. Sandstein. Fussteil: 26 cm. Nur der untere und der oberste Teil ist erhalten. Mit Brandspuren. 16. Bruchstück eines weissen Marmors. Teil eines Grabdenkmales mit stilisierten Epheublättern. Das Bruchstück ist 40 cm. hoch, 52 cm. breit, 20 cm. dick. 17. Bruchstück eines Grabdenkmales. Aufschrift: siehe ungar. Text. Sandstein. In sehr schlechtem Zustande. Aus zwei Stücken zusammengesetzt. Breite: 82 cm., Höhe: 44 rm., Dicke: 28 cm. In summer 1929, when building a house in Ondód, a viliágé some kiilometers from the town of Szombathely, the workmen found the ruins of a round well, filled up with rubbish. The well, which had a diameter of 125—130 cm. had been built of Roman girave 'and altarstones, which had evidently been dragged there from a cemetery of the town of Savaria. It seems, that they had been knocked to pieces as alike as possible, on the very spot, as parts of ihe same gravestone had been built into the well, side by side. The chinks between the stones were filled up with a kind of mineral, called chlorislate, much in use in old Savaria. 1. White marble-slab. Height: 63 cms., breadth: 43 eins., thickness: 10 cms. It is a simple, framed slab, engraved with transversal script. The form of the letters, the scanty ligature, the careful work indicate the I. Century. The slab must have been fitted with iron to a wall; the traces are still visible. (I.) Inscription: see Hungárián text. One meets very seldom with the name of the Goddess Aecorna (Aecurna, Aequorna), and only on epigraphic monuments. According the inscription that stone was erected in honour of the Goddess, by some inhabitants of Laibach (Emona), dwelling then in Savaria. Three such monuments we know from Laibach, where her sanetuary stood on the Schlossberg; and another from Nauportus (Oberlaibach) which however does not exist any more. (1.) M o m m s e n, and following him Roscher consider her to be an ancian Roman Goddess of Commerce (2.) and explam her name by the word aquor. With regard to the local cult, Wissowa (3.) does not think this definition quite plausible, because: 1. None'of her monuments have been found on Italian soil. 2. All her monuments stand in a certain relation to Emona. 3. Emona, however is a town, founded by the Illyrians, and got only later under the rule of the Taurisks, then under that of the Romans. 4. City-names resembling the name of Emona, are found in great number in the territory of the northern Illyrian tritbes. (4.)