Folia archeologica 40.

H. Kolba Judit: A losonci ékszerlelet

194 H. KOLBA JUDIT There are magnificent relics of textile in the find: the aerly version of pillow lace made of silver gilt thread, the so called woven lace. It was the decoration of a shroud ornamented with two bands of wavy foliage pattern. It is also a 16th century work. Further smaller fragments of textiles must have belonged to the decoration of the dress. The dating of the find is made possible by the ralics of some funerals of the period. In the family vaults of the Wittlesbach's discovered in 1781, several princesses were buried in the years about 1600. Similar jewels were also buried with them. Near Innsbruck, in Hall, the daughters of Prince Károly are buried, they died in 1620 and 1621. They entered the convent in 1607, when they gave a donation of a large number of renaissance jewels to it, with similar dress jewels to the Hungarian ones. According to the literature they were made about 1590. In the same place chains with S-shaped dress jewels were also found. Two bracelets of armour-chains, a ring, and a fine gold chain might have been made at the beginning of the 19th century and were put into the Losonc vault on the occasion of a later funeral. Considering the amount of bones, even after the fire, at least two early — at the end of the 16th century of after 1600 — and one at the beginning of the 19th century funerals must have been in the vault. Among the well-known aristocratic families of the neighbourhood it might have been connected with the Lossonczy family: István Lossonczy pledged for the succession of his daughters and among the possession mentioned was Losonc also. His daughter, Anna Lossonczy got married second time in 1590 to Zsigmond Forgách, and in the following year she bequeathed her possessions to husband. She died in 1595. Forgách, the member of the Reformed Church buried his wife in the vault of the Losonc church, because the family vault was not built at that time. In his later marriages his second wife died also early, then the daughters of his third wife should be buried. One of them must have been the young woman buried in the vault of the church. It can be stated only conditionally who could have been the person whom the objects of the find had belonged to. The most important thing is the find of the marvellous jewels and goldsmith's works which is one of the most significant among the relics of Hungarian renaissance.