Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 43 (1998)( Pécs, 1999)

Régészet - Nagy Erzsébet: Tausírozott vas phalera Bólyból (Függelék: Horváth Zsuzsanna: Tausírozott vas phalera restaurálása)

NAGY E.: TAUSÍROZOTT VAS PHALERA BOLYBÓL 107 Iron phalerae decorated with inlay from Boly (County Baranya, South Hungary) Erzsébet NAGY I've found the objects under discussion Inv. No. M.58.12.2. in the Old Collection of Mohács deposited at the Archaeological Department of the Janus Pannonius Museum of Pécs under the following notes: „bit made of iron, decorated, rusted, broken into 3 pieces Avar - rescue excavation - building site of the MaizeFactory (Kukoricgyár)". After the restoration of the objects I had started to clear up the circumstances of the finding: The Seed-unit of the Boly Rt. has been called Maize-Factory, where in spring of 1958 a building of the Dryhouse No. 1 (Szárító I.) was started. During the foundation of the elevator in the eastern wall of the pit some cross cuts of graves were visible situated very close to each other. According to it the orientation of these graves might be nearly W - E. It is also possible that these graves - disturbed by the building operations - belonged to a same row of graves. The known objects are the following ones: Bit-fragment of a horse bit with a straight cheekpiece; Phalera - a pair of iron phalerae, large size, disc shaped iron phalerae decorated with bronze inlay. The central buttons and the edges of the objects are framed and the whole surface of both objects is decorated with pelta-like motifs and spiral lines following each others. If we accept the classification of G. Kiss whilst we highlight the uniqueness of our objects and we also have taken into consideration that the decoration of the phalerae from Boly (actually the stylized vegetable ornament) can not bring in connection with neither groups of G. Kiss. On the ground of the decorated surface I can range our piece into the latest group of the round shaped phalerae. Its date - on the basis of the accompanying archaeological material - might be the end of the 8th century A. D. despite of finding the best parallel of the decoration on a jacket iron plate sword fastening to a belt decorated with a silver incrustation from Pobedim dated to the first third of the 9th century A. D.