B. Nyékhelyi Dorottya: Középkori kútlelet a budavári Szent György téren (Monumenta Historica Budapestinensia 12. kötet Budapest, 2003)
Abstract
ceramics. For the first sight it seems that most of them can be completed, thus counted together with the unbroken ones there are about 450 vessels altogether. Most of them are white. They belong to the characteristic pottery types observed and described in Buda ; mainly cooking pots, mugs, lids, jars and cups of various forms. Among the ornamented jars and jugs there are ones with tooth and with foliage patterns as well. The number of grey imported pottery made by reduction firing sometimes sealed on the rim is also high. Among the kitchenware the glazed type is represented by the pans. Six pans could have been put together from the broken pieces. There is only one example of glazed festive table-ware: a two spouted jar parallels of which are known from Hungarian and foreign specialist literature. There is a unique find a ribbed cup on the front third of which some painted Hebrew inscription can be seen. To the full interpretation of it some further research will have to be done. Among the kitchenware there are also some larger store vessels. Oven tiles are mainly represented by square shaped or bowltype or the ones with strap-laid decoration. It is worth to mention here a structural element of the oven, a cylindrical ceramic pipe with one end being circular the other quadrangular. Among the finds made of various material, interestingly, it is the objects made of glass that survived in the worst condition. The majority of these fragments - being few in number compared to the other finds - were made up of bottles and goblets. There was a small amount of window glass too. The number of lamps was outstanding in the collection, it was even possible to detect the trace of oil in some of them. The main bulk of metal obj ects were nails of various size and shape. There were some broken keys and some wooden- or bone-shaft knives too. The different types of fasteners and belt-mounts could have belonged to the vestment, whereas some of the other mounts could have ornamented the clothes. It is worth to mention that apart from pins there were also needles which are usually seldom found at excavations. The most important metal find of the well was a tinned bowl with flared rim that was found almost complete. In the muddy layer there were some parvi coined by King
