Régészeti tanulmányok - Zalai Gyűjtemény 6. (Zalaegerszeg, 1976)
Mócsy András: Zala megye római kori kőemlékeiről
ANDRÁS MOCSY: THE ROMAN STONE RELICS IN ZALA COUNTY (Resume) Only a very small number of Roman inscriptions and stone relics are known in the territory of Zala County; in spite of the fact that two important trade routes of Pannónia crossed this region: one was the so-called Amber Road running North —South, the other was the road between Poetovio and Acquincum running South —West — North —East. Both routes had an important role in the early imperial period. The only road station known by name is Salla (Itin. Ant. 262,5), which with more or less certainty may be identified with Zalalövő of our days. The sigillata finds of the excavations conducted at Zalalövő show a strange fluctuation in trade relations: the golden age was at the end of the 1st and the first third of the 2nd century, in spite of the fact that Salla. according to the evidence offered by a yet unpublished inscription, was raised during Hadrian to the status of a municipium. The composition of the stone relics found along the two said routes confirms from an other viewpoint the picture presented by the sigillata: all these stone relics were imported stonecarvings, presumably products of the workshops of Poetovio working with Styrian marble, and they all originate from the period when, according to the evidence of the sigillata, trade relations were the most intensive, and considerable trade was transected along the two routes. All the grave —stones found here were erected by families of foreign origin, mainly of Northern Italy, which settled down along these routes at the time when trade between Italy (Aquileia) and the Danube was prospering. From later periods, we know only stone relics of extremely poor quality, made of local stone, and in a much smaller quantity than the relics discussed above.
