Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2008)
DÉNES GABLER AND ANDRÁS MÁRTON: Head-Pots in the Antiquities Collection
tainly owned the infrastructure of production and distribution, which gave the products of the ceramic workshops their giant "interprovincial" market. The wide diffusion of North African ceramics built on close links between the pottery industry and agricultural production. 96 Simple plates and lids were clearly imported to Italy in large numbers along with agricultural produce; and also, naturally in smaller numbers, to more distant provinces like Noricum or Pannónia. The North African pottery 7 industry, and, within it, the characteristic group discussed here, is of exceptional importance both for our understanding of cultural contacts between the provinces, and of the economic history of the late Roman Empire. Dénes Gabler, Institute for Archaeology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1024 Budapest, Úri u. 49 András Márton, H1075 Budapest, Károly krt. S/a. NOTES 1 Inv. 99.31. A. Clay: Ochre-orangey brown. Slip: red-orangey brown (Munsell 7.5 YR), spotted in several places during firing. Height: 19,3 cm; diameter of mouth: 4,4—4,5 cm; diameter of base: 5,6-5,7 cm. Width at widest point: 15,6 cm. 1 On the technical aspects of jugs and lagynoi with human heads, see D. M. Bailey, "Cnidian relief ware vases and fragments in the British Museum. Part 1. Lagynoi and Head Cups", Acta Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores 14-15 (1972-1973), 12; U. Mandel, Kleinasiatische Reliefkeramik der mittleren Kaiserzeit, Die ""Oinophorengruppe" und Verwandte, Berlin and New York 1988, 133; M. Flecker, "EX OFICINA NAVIGI. Die Werkstatt des Navigius in Henchir es Srira", Kölner Jahrbuch für Vor- und Frühgeschichte 38 (2005), 113 f. 3 The Antiquities Collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts has in its possession a positive form-pair used in the making of a similar spout: inv. T. 442.1-2. Oroszlán Z., Az Országos Magyar Szépművészeti Múzeum antik terrakottagyűjteményének katalógusa, Budapest 1930, nos. E 123-124; Oroszlán Z., A Szépművészeti Múzeum Evkönyve 9 (1940), 31-32, 232, pl. 31-32. The pieces were purchased from the Munich dealer Paul Arndt. The material of the patrix differs from the African pieces. The ivy wreath on the back of the head and the modelling of the facial profile point to Asia Minor. They were probably been made in the second or first half of the third century in a w r orkshop in Asia Minor, perhaps Cnidus.
