Budapest Régiségei 14. (1945)

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

have to mention a stone coffin discovered on Szemlohegy, in Boróka street during the operations of the Water Works. Unfortunately the inscription place was empty and its contents having been ravaged, we only found some fragments of the grave furniture. Only the representation of the signifer is of interest (described by L. Nagy in the present volume). : In the Aquincum civil quarter (North, West and South to the Museum of Aquincum) we continued in these years to explore further those territories which adjoining the already disclosed rnin-fields were at our disposal. Our plan (1.) represents the civil quarter with the outer defensive wall we found at several points. L. Nagy had already referred to the site of the southern city-wall and to that of the city-gate. (KuzsinszkyKmlékkönyv-—Laur. Aqinncenses II, 1941 = Diss. Pann. Ser I, nr. 11, 191). The remains of the northern town gate were disclosed in 1942 and 1943 in late autumn and early spring. The remains of the eastern town-gate are to be expected to be found in front of the post office of the Gas works dwelling estate under the modern roadway. Here during the building of a shelter in May 1943 a 220—270 cm thick wall was discovered (as we could judge from the thickness of the rubbish) running in NS direction. In my opinion this is a part of the eastern town-wall. Parallel to the wall, a late-Roman grave came to light, composed of stone plates, inside the wall, west to it in 360 m distance. Outside the wall, E. to it, we have found traces of another grave. In the northern side of the 500—320 cm wide ditch (which also ran on the whole E-W) west to the line of rubbish of the city-wall, in 580—600 m distance, another rubbish-basin was discovered, but only in the northern longitudinal section of the ditch. The greatest width was at the top 360 cm. In my opinion, this rubbish-trough, which appeared farther towards west, was the rubbish of the south-western corner of a receding turret (belonging to the gate?) which was cut down by the deep ditch. This corresponds to the data of V.' Kuzsinszky Budapest Régiségei XIV. (Aquincum, Ausgrabungen u. Funde 1933, 44) saying that the arcus cum ianius tegula teclus •(triumphal arch provided with doors covered by bricks) built by C(aius) lul(ius) Sextinus conductor (farmer of duties?) was at the southern end of the Gas-Works dwelling estate i. e. on the site, where the altar stone dedicated to Deae Syriae

. . . was discovered. So perhaps this triumphal arch decorated the eastern part of the town (?). During the building on the territory of the Óbuda Gas Works, Roman graves were found lately too. From the grave furniture discovered on Nov. 16 and 17, we mention a dagger (with the fragments of the ringshaped and globular ornaments of the dagger case), a milk-feeding bottle, a balm flask, a clay lamp (with the stamp FESTI) two intact jugs with one handle and an earthen urn with cover. On the territory of the Aquincum civil settlement we began in Spring 1943 to dig on the N. side of the roadway running E-W, that closes to the North the group of houses next to the Mithraeum (Mithras sanctuary) disclosed in 1941. The rooms of the dwelling houses we excavated here were decorated with terrazzo flooring and painted walls. A cellar was also discovered, whose door was filled in with a wall in the second building period (as the coins indicate, in the beginning of the III

rd century.) In the floor of the cellar, a well consisting of pillars and barrels without top and bottom was discovered in the first building layer (fig. 3). On several barrel staves, there was a stamp burnt in. On one of them was the following stamps : R VII C -IM//ONIS In the second line, after the letter M, a letter (or perhaps two) were broken out and became illegible. On other staves we have found the stamp already known from the staves of the barrels lining the potters' wells of Aquincum (Gas Works pottery quarter) : IMMUNEX IN R(ationem) VAL(etudinarii) LEG(iohis) II AD(iutricis) (See : 465~