Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 30/1. (2010)
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56 В. Rezi * * * The classification and the dating of the bronze hoards from the HaB period are based mostly on the chronological framework proposed by M. Rusu,91 assumed later on with minor modifications by M. Petrescu-Dimbovita.92 This periodization continued in fact the one created by W. A. V. Brunn.93 T. Bader elaborated a more elastic approach for the hoards from the Some? River Plain, placing the HaBl-B2 bronze hoards in one single phase (IV in his chronological system), naming the HaB3 period the end of the early Hallstatt Culture.94 T. Kemenczei believes that the hoard from Priigy is one of the earliest manifestations of the pre-Scythian period, dated largely in the 8th and 7th century BC. This phase is preceded, in the chronological scheme of W. A. V. Brunn, by the horizon of the Rohod-Szentes hoard series, characterized by the Hajdúböszörmény type situlae.95 He returns with slight changes a few years later, placing the hoards from Celldömölk-Súg/íegy, Románd and Szentes-Donátvár in the IVb horizon of his typology, being contemporaneous with the HaB2 period,96 the hoard from Priigy being placed right in the next phase.97 The hoards from the Carpathian Basin are separated in two major groups, each with two other subdivisions: the first one contains the products of the local metallurgical centres (Hajdúböszörmény, Románd, Bükkszentlászló), the second one eastern elements taken over and distributed in the area of the Mezőcsát and Basarabi Cultures (Biharugra- Fügöd).98 Ch. Pare continues in fact the threefold division of the HaB period (DFS IV-V), to which he adds a transition phase between the first two (DFS IV/V), placing many hoards dated initially in HaB2 in his VI period of his chronological system.99 C. Metzner-Nebelsick proposes a new division for the hoarding series from Romania, claiming that there are no fundamental evidences for dividing the HaB period in three phases. That is why she will synchronize some hoards from the Sängeorgiu de Pädure-Fize?u Gherlii series with HaBl finds, and eliminating the $omartin-Veti? hoard, redistributing its hoards between the remaining two main HaB periods.100 Analyzing the hoards from HaB period from the collection of the Brukenthal Museum, the authors believe that the division and dating of the bronze hoards from the already mentioned period cannot be achieved without the synchronization of the hoard series with the existent cultural background in Transylvania.101 91 Rusu 1963, 180-204. 92 Petrescu-Dimbovita 1977, 28-32; Petrescu-Dimbovita 1978, 88-97, Abb.3. 93 Brunn 1968, 28-55. 94 Bader 1978, 108. 95 Kemenczei 1981, 37-38; Kemenczei 1984, 85. 96 Kemenczei 1996a, 83-84. 97 Kemenczei 1996a, 85-86. It is named also one of the leading types of the horizon Bükkszentlászló by A. Mozsolics (Mozsolics 2000, 27-29). 98 Kemenczei 1996b, 269-271. He mentions also that strict chronological boundaries cannot be outlined between individual groups, and the transition between the four periods occurred without a break. 99 Pare 1999, 359-371. In comparison with the rest of the Carpathian Basin the number of the HaB2 hoards is high. Through the presence of some cups and cauldrons within hoards, these finds clearly differ from the previous period. In the rest of the Carpathian Basin they are considered as a joining deck between the richer hoards from the IV11 and VIth period. 100 Metzner-Nebelsick 2005, 321-328. 101 Ciugudean et al. 2008,43-46, fig. 13, pl. XXXIII with the short research history regarding the cultural background from this period. The local Transylvania evolution of the Gáva culture is synchronized with the Moigrad-Täuteu and Fize^u Gherlii-Sängerorgiu de Pädure hoard series, or with the horizons IV-V proposed by C. Metzner- Nebelsick, or DFS IV-V by Ch. Pare.
