Budapest Régiségei 14. (1945)

ÉRTESÍTŐ - Szilágyi János: A Fővárosi Múzeum rómaikori kutatásai és az Aquincumi Múzeum gyarapodása az 1943-1944. években 451-467

JÁNOS SZILÁGYI THE ROMAN RESEARCHES OF THE MUNICIPAL, MUSEUM AND THE NEW ACQUISITIONS OF THE MUSEUM OF AQUINCUM IN THE YEARS 1943—1944 In consequence of the want of material produced by war time, there was very little new building activity in Aquincum and the Museum of Aquincum being a special department for Roman history of the Municipal Museum seized this opprtunity to explore thoroughly the territory around the Museum and so enlarge our knowledge about the Aquincum Civil Quarter. This excavation did not promise a rich find material, as the ground displays here in some places a troughshaped deepening, but anyhow, we had to dig up the territory next to the Museum, as we intended to enlarge the Museum building. In our previous report (Budapest Régiségei XIII, 1943, 357) we have already mentioned, that in Pók -street No. 1 (the inn Frindt formerly Krempl-mill) east to the so called I. amphiteatre we began to excavate the northern gate of the A quincum civil quarter. We could only begin our work about the end of Autumn (the inn being frequented in summer by callers) and we continued it at the beginning of the year 1943. We presumed, that if we lengthened the imaginary line of the aquaeductus and the direction of the northern town-wall already found by L, Nagy, we might find in their point of intersection a town-gate. This presumption proved to be right. The smaller finds (terra sigillatasherds, coins,pieces of painted wall.sexagonal bricks belonging to the flooring) we are going to describe in the next volume of Budapest Régiségei. Now we only want to state the following: These small finds and the remains of walls inside the town wall probably belonged to dwelling houses along the roadway, which led out through the gate, the dwelling houses perhaps accompanied this road leading out of the town up to the town-wall. At the southern town-gate, the collegium centonariorum, the seat of the fire brigade was discovered (see L. Nagy, Kuzsinszky Emlékkönyv — Taureae Aquincenses II, 182—) so we expected to find a public building at the nothern gate too, but tip till now, we found nothing to support our presumption. With our digging, we laid three aquaeductus pillars open. One of these falls into the line of the city gate. The aqueduct and the town wall were not built at the same time. The aqueduct was built first. The town wall changes its direction slightly because of the pillar and is so to say leaning over it. The projecting gate turrets were built to the city wall later. The laying of the foundations of the turret wall was begun on the seat of the pillar, i. e. the bottom of the foundation is 55 cm higher than the bottom of the foundation of the town wall. The thickness of the turret walls is generally 2 m. 463