Közlemények Zala megye közgyűjteményeinek kutatásaiból - Zalai Gyűjtemény 18. (Zalaegerszeg, 1983)
Ottományi Katalin: Későrómai besimított kerámia Nagykanizsán
Pusztai 1966 — Pusztai, R. : A lébényi germán fejedelmi sír, Arrabona 8 (1966) 105—. Soproni 1978 — Soproni, S.: Der spätrömische Limes zwischen Esztergom und Szentendre, Budapest 1978. Tejral 1972 — Tejral, J.: Die donauländische Variante der Drehscheibenkeramik und ihre Bezihung zur Tschernjachover Kultur, Origine et Debuts des Slaves VII (1972) 77— 139. Sági 1960 — Sági, K. : Die spätrömische Bevölkerung der Umgebung von Keszthely, AAH 12 (1960) 187—299. KATALIN OTTOMÁNYI: LATE-ROMAN BURNISHED POTTERY AT NAGYKANIZSA (Summary) During the excavation of the Late-Roman villa next to the Nagykanizsa—Inkey sepulchral chapel, a few pottery fragments with burnished decoration were found in the pit 36. According to their shape, most of these pieces were jugs and beakers, there was only one pot and one glass fragment among them. The jugs belong to the so-called pear-shaped vessels, common in the 2and —4th century. With burnished decoration they can be found frequently in Late Roman cemeteries. The only pot-rim fragment pertains to a pot-shape which appears already in the LT D period. This shape was one of the most characteristic products of the potteries of Pilismarót and Carnuntum, working even at the beginning of the 5th century. In the decoration motives of the Nagykanizsa material besides the most frequent horizontal and vertical lines the pine motive, the burnished triangle; the so-called Murga motive etc. also appear the obtuseangled lattice decoration, which is very common in Late-Roman burnished pottery, here only on 1—2 fragments occur. These vessels were produced by local workshops, the working activities of them can be dated by the appearance of burnished pottery in Pannónia. In Pannónia this pottery occurs in the forts alongside the limes as well as in the settlements inside the province and in their cemeteries. On the basis of the stratigraphie data we can state that its majority appeared in the last third of the 4th century. We may however relate it to ethnic groups only on the basis of grave furniture. In one group of the graves besides the burnished pottery common finds of the LateRoman period came to light. The graves of the other group, mostly isolated ones, according to their grave-goods, may be related to one the settled Barbarian peoples. This classification makes difference not only in respect of the ethnic groups, but of the chronology as well. Burnished pottery produced by the local, Nagykanizsa, population has appeared already in the first period of this pottery was used and later, too. It can not be fixed to a concrete date, probably it was used from the second ha'f of the 4th century to its end, or maybe to the first half of the 5th century.
