Folia archeologica 36.

Lovag Zsuzsa: Egy XI. századi bronz korpusz

216 ISTVÁN VÖRÖS Unterschid sei..." (there is a great difference between Polish and Hungarian beef.

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2 This cattle was bred in the Hungarian Great Plain (e. g. near Kecskemét, see foot-note 72.). They were large wild cattle who were able to endure being driven for longperiods without damage physically or to their health. In my opinion, the Augsburg painting represents a wild cattle being driven to the cattle-market, and the Slavic name of the animal (with German orthography) was inscribed on the picture. 4. The problem involved in using names ofpersons and places derived from the names of wild large Bovid, as %yogeograpbical evidence for the of ocitrrence of Aurochs and Bison We have already mentioned the name of B. A. Szalay from Nagyszeben (Hermannstadt, Sibiu, Roumania) who coollected data on Aurochs. In 1915, he published his book entitled "Der Wisent in Ortsnamen" in which he enumerated European topographical data connedted with or derived from the names "Wisent" "Urus", "Zubr" and "Tur". He also compiled a bibliography and collection of data "Die Weltliteratur des Wisents and Ures" consisting of approximately 12.000 items which made it possible for him to make historical-zoological research.

8S Unfortunately this work has remained unpublished. 'Wisent" "Urus" "Zubr" "Tur' Country Niederland — 1 Lower Saxony 3 6 Schleswig-Holstein — 1 Mecklenburg — — — 9 Pomerany — 2 2 14 Mazury — 7 — 16 Nord-Rhein 6 23 Westfalen 1 4 Brandenburg — 2 — 1 Great Poland — — 4 12 114 10 46 6 52" Hessen 2 11 Thüringen/Saxony 6 17 Lower Silesia — 1 — 9 Lorraine — 1 Luxenburg — 1 Baden/Württemberg 4 25 Bavaria 20 84 — Bohemia — 3 2 26 Moravia — — 2 2 O./N.-Austria 6 38 — 1 260 38 181 4 37 8

2 Takdts, S., Emlékezzünk eleinkről. (Budapest 1929) 334. 8

3 Szalay, B. A., Hundert irrige Wisentbelege. (Neudamm

—Berlin 1938) 104.