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36 ISTVÁN VÖRÖS Sites with lion remains in chronological order Date B. C. Site Feature Age Culture 3500 Zengővárkonv 1939. Cemetery's „sporadic" Late Neolithic Lengyel Culture 3000 Tiszaföldvár Téglagyár 1982. Tiszaluc—Sarkad 1974—82. II. Sect, pit № 9. Layers and pits Late Middle Copper Age Late Middle Copper Age Hunyadihalom Group 2500 Gyöngyöshalász— E,ncspuszta 1981. pit N" 6. Early Late Copper Age Earlier phase of Baden Cult. Boleráz Group I. DESCRIPTION OF THE LION REMAINS Zengővárkony, Cemetery (J. Dombay's excavation of 1939) South Transdanubia, Late Neolithic: Lengyel Culture." Caninus inf. sin. (Fig. 2 : 1 ), plaster-cast;

8 the original Inv.No.: 5/192—1939. is lost. Localisation: "Sporadic" from area of the topographical № 3034.'

J ' Dombay, J., A zengővárkonyi őskori telep és temető. — The prehistoric settlement and cemetery at Zengővárkony. АН 23. (Budapest 1939).; Id., Die Siedlung und das Gräberfeld in Zengővárkony. AH 37. (Budapest 1960). * The plaster cast of the Zengővárkony lion — together with the original consignment card (Inv.No.; 5/192. 1939) — is in the Palaeontological Department of the Museum of Natural Science (Inv.No.: V.

60.1581). I should like to exprès my thanks to Prof. Dr. D. [ánossy who drew my attention to the cast. s In the area of topographical № 3034 J. Dombay excavated the grave group N- VI in several parts; in subgroup VIb. there were graves № 72—77, 259—260, 262; in subgroup VId № 115—117, 160—161, 163, 167, 169—172, 227—262 (Dombay, J., op. cit. (1939, 1960), Beilage X. Zoffmann

, ZJ„ JPMÉ 17—18 (1972—73) 47 50., Pl. 12.). The animal bone grave goods of grave № 229 excavated in 1939 (wild boar tusk, red deer antler Inv.No.: 5/11.1939) and of grave №239(wild boar humerus Inv.No.: 5/11.1939) as well as a lower caninus of wild boar, a red deer antler (Inv.No.: 5/192.1939), a right side horn-core fragment of an aurochs (Inv.No.: 5/194.1939) from the "sporadic" finds of area № 3034 were published by Bökönyi

, Л., JPMÉ 1960. 90.; The "sporadic rind" (Inv.No.: 5/194.1939) according to the inventory list consisted of three teeth and three shells. One of the teeth was the lower caninus of the wild boar published by S. Bökönyi, the other is an upper caninus of wild boar — both belong to male animals, while thee third tooth now only in the form of a perfeet plaster cast (Inv. No.: