Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 14-15 (1969-70) (Pécs, 1974)

Régészet - Kiss, Attila: Unpublished Finds from the V. Century originated from Transdanubia in the British Museum and the Janus Pannonius Museum of Pécs

UNPUBLISHED V. CENTURY FINDS 121 Description: A silver ring with coiled round ends, and hanging from it pendants shaped like a wedge, a hatchet, a pin, a spade, a sheet with a rolled up end, a bar. D of ring: 2,2 cm (Table I. 3.). BARANYA COUNTY (place of discovery unknown) Collection : Janus Fannonius Museum, Pécs, Inv. No. 1418. Description: Fragment of a flat bronze buckle, on its heads-plate a mask in the form of a human face between two open-mouthed animal heads turning away from each other. L: 3,3 cm, B: 3,1 cm (Table I. 4.) Figure 4. Baranya. Buckle with mask (1:1) DUNASZEKCSÖ (Baranya County) Collection : Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs, Inv. No. 712. Description: Part of the body, neck and mouth of a well-levigated, grey jug, its mouthpiece is shaped like moustached human head. Body D: 15,5 cm Table (I. 7.) HARKÁNY (?) (surroundings) Circumstances of discovery: Gift of Dr. Zoltán Kecskeméti. According to his information, the find comes from the vicinity of Harkány. Collection: Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs, Inv. No. N. 70. 1. 1—2. Description: Brooch of silver plate, its foot is broken, its head is bordered with a semicircular reticulated pattern. L: 6,1 cm, В of head: 3,1 cm (Table II. 3.). Brooch with foot folded underneath, the base of its foot and its arch is decorated with an X-shaped pattern, the folded foot is broken. L: 5,7 cm (Table II. 4.). HUNGARY (place of discovery unknown) Collection : British Museum, Department of British and Medival Antiquities, Inv. No. 1921. 4—5. 1. Description: Fragments of a gilded silver bowbrooch, on its head-plate cuneiform engravings. L: 7,6 cm. (Table II. 5.). ÓSZÖNY—BRIGETIO (Komárom County) Collection: British Museum, Department of British and Medieval Antiquities, Inv. No. 1930. 4—9. 2. Description: Gilded silver bow-brooch, on its headplate niello and almandine inlaid work between cuneiform engravings.

2 L: 9,85 cm (Table II. 7.). PÉCS—BASAMALOM (Baranya County) Circumstances of discovery: The finds were discovered by Mária Fucsek in her vineyard in a „Roman" brick tomb. No more records were left concerning the find. When in 1965 author tried to identify the place of discovery, he stated that it lies under the boilers of the Hőerőmű (Heat Power Station) built since then. Collection: Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs, Inv. No. 7110. Description: A pair of cast bronze brooches, with flat head and a semicircular cow of punched dots on its foot. The arch of the bow is V-shaped. The pin ended originally in three knobs, one is fragmentary, the head and pin are perforated. L: 8,1 cm, В of foot: 1,9 cm (Table II. 1—2.). PÉCS — MORA FERENC STREET (Baranya County) Circumstances of discovery: On the 12th december 1963, during the canalization works in the Móra Ferenc street, a grave was discovered in the trench dug on its northern side lying in N—

S direction, 230 cm under the ground. Since this part of the street lies in an open space, the place of discovery may be identified only indirectly: it lies north of the houses No 56—58 of the parallel Nyárfa street. No other graves were found during the rest of the canalization 2 The find was registered together with the diskbrooch from the VI. century found in ószőny (I. Bona, Acta Arch. Hung. 7 (1956) 197.).