Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)
ANNUAL REPORT - A 2007. ÉV - MARIANNA DAGI: Highlighted Works of Art: Chamber Exhibitions Organized by the Collection of Classical Antiquities
its independent existence ended when it was conquered by Rome barely a century later. A better picture of local art before the conquest has been provided by twentieth century excavations. The sculpture and vase painting of Teanum were illustrated in this exhibition. The terracotta head of a man wearing a pointed hat is an old piece of the Collection. Some light was shed on its origin by excavations in the town, at the site of the so-called sanctuary of Loreto. The Budapest head belongs to a series of youths' heads found . EGYPTIAN RELIEF WITH THE NAMES OF THOTH AND HERMES at the site. It was locally made, and on the basis of its style can be dated to the fifth century. Of the two fourth century vases exhibited, the polychrome plate, which belongs to the group of so-called Teano cups, was also locally made. The technique of its decoration can be linked with the Gnathia ware of the Greek cities of ancient Apulia: note the added colour on a black background, incised, stamped, as well as rolled plant and geometric ornaments, all of which point to the decline of figurai decoration: the same thing is attested by the fashion for Arethusa cups, also made in a workshop in Teanun. Their name derives from the female relief head in the tondo: actually the stamped impression of a fifth century Syracusan coin which represents the nymph Arethusa. The exhibition showing the art from Teano points to a wider tendency in current scholarship to reject a broad and ecumenical idea of Italic art in favour of a detailed examination of the art of various local centres. The central piece of the winter exhibition w r as a small limestone relief, which arrived in the Collection after the death in 2003 of the great Hungarian egyptologist László Kákosy. The exhibition was dedicated to his memory. The relief, which is approx. 10 centimetres in height, shows an ibis crouching on a pedestal inside a Greek-type temple, with a basket of sacrificial gifts in front of it, and a Greek inscription beneath: EPMHC ("Hermes"). The piece, which was made in Egypt during the time of the late Roman Empire, has more than one meaning. The image can also be read as a hieroglyphic text. The elements of the rebus can be read as follows: the pedestal reads maat where the ibis —Djehuty, i.e. Thoth —rests (hotep her). The small composition thus spells out an ancient title of the Egyptian deity: Djehuty hotep her Maat —"Thoth
