Póczy Klára: Forschungen in Aquincum 1969- 2002 (Aquincum Nostrum 2. Budapest, 2003)
6. Die Wirtschaft Aquincums im Spiegel der neuen Funde - 6.3. Animals and Roman lifeways in Aquincum (Alice M. Choyke)
a hide processing area which was in use during one of two periods after the Civil Town had been attacked and before the town had really recovered. At the same time, there is suggestive and similar material coming from the Firemen's Headquarters which is located by the southern wall. The building functioned as a collegium for almost 400 years and the faunal material in it is quite separate in terms of its composition from that in the trench. Aside from the food refuse bone already discussed in this paper, there are numbers of metapodia and connected foot bones as well as skulls with attached horn cores which is associated with hides. In fact, one of the means of fire fighting (SZILÁGYI 1984, 51, 68) included raw hides soaked in water or vinegar and raw animal hides filled with chaff and soaked. These skin bags were called cento. It is very likely that the extremity bones would have been left in the legs of these skins for easier handling. As the skins would have gotten burned or worn out they would have been discarded - perhaps into the very trench previously thought to be part of a hide processing operation. The bones from the Firemen's Headquarters itself would be from the last phase of each building stage. (Fig. 8) Another type product regularly manufactured in Roman towns are objects made from bones and antlers. By the Roman period, bone was carved by hand or on a lathe into ornaments, fittings, bits of inlay and parts of complex objects in centralized workshops which were undoubtedly tied in to the butchershops which provided them with the appropriate raw material. 78 While the concrete location Serjeantson, D., Animal Remains and the Tanning Trade. In: Diet and Crafts in Towns: D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron eds., BAR British Series 199; Oxford (1989) 129-146, here 136. Fig. 7. Lithograph of a panel from Trajen's column in the Forum in Rome showing mules being used for military transport Periods Period Period Period Modern 1 and 2 2 3 1 to 5 or mixed mixed mixed Cattle 78 18 3 45 17 Caprine 52 11 5 20 8 Sheep 2 2 1 3 2 Goat 4 1 Pig 56 18 25 11 Horse 26 1 4 11 Dog 5 1 Domestic hen 3 1 2 NISP domestic 226 51 9 101 49 Red deer 1 1 1 Roe deer 1 1 Wild pig 1 Sturgeon 1 Sturgeon 1 NISP wild 4 1 2 1 NISP total 230 53 9 103 50 Human 2 Rodent 1 Fish 2 Unio 1 1 Non-ident. 19 5 2 6 3 Tab. 3. The Species Distribution from the Albertfalva Vicus. all wild animal NISP is smaller than 10%
