Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 44-45 (1999-2000) (Pécs, 2002)
Régészet - Gábor Olivér: A dunai-lovasisten három újabb emléke Baranya megyéből
88 A JANUS PANNONIUS MÚZEUM ÉVKÖNYVE 44-45 ( 1999-2000) the same provenance, we may think of a syncretistic home sanctuary where the two types of the depictions of the Danubian horsemen were in use at the same time. Namely from here no other object that would prove that the home sanctuary was not erected to the Danubian horseman came to light. The stone table belongs to József Hampel's type 6, Árpád Buday's type C/a and by the classification of Tudor formally to group I and by its content to group В (HAMPEL 1905, BUDAY 1928, TUDOR 1976). In the case of the bronze disc we consider the disappearance of the godess a significant factor. József Hampel took this an accidental technical mistake by the only example from Aquincum and Dumitru Tudor formulated that her depiction is not proper or the silhouette of the godess is visible (HAMPEL 1903 34-35 1904 10-11, TUDOR 1969 70 1976 99). The subordinate depiction of the godess is visible on those stone tables on which her silhouette is only given by the horses' front profile, e. g. by the classification of Dumitru Tudor, № 65, 66, 184 etc. (TUDOR 1969). In our case, however, it is something we can only see on the lead disc from Aquincum that is an almost similar parallel to our bronze disc. On these discs all that remained of the godess are a globule and a presumable but faintly visible, horizontal line. The shapes and sizes of the discs without the godess are the same but their material is not. Both came to light in Pannónia. József Hampel devoted an article of 47 pages to the one from Aquincum for its extraordinary being already in 1904 (HAMPEL 1904). As against the earlier views it was not found in the Roman age gymnasium but at the site of the building of the Augustalium (NAGY 1970 447). The piece from Pécs was in a dwelling house, under a burnt layer. For we already have two Pannonian examples for the omitting the figure of the godess (a lead and a bronze disc), we will have to think about how important the appearance of the godess in the depictions of the Danubian horsemen was and mainly about when and how much the producers and the commissioners were aware of the Author's address: GÁBOR Olivér H-7601 Pécs, Р. О. Box 347 Janus Pannonius Múzeum Régészeti Osztálya meaning and significance of the certain symbols. The increasing or decreasing of the number of the icons, the changing of their places, the transformations of the depictions of the main figures cannot be compared to the fact that on the two Pannonian discs the figure of the godess, that would otherwise be a main figure, does not even appear any more. The only comparable changes are the duplication of the single horseman of type "A" (type "В") or the disappearance of the horses (type "C"). As these two changes concluded in typological separation, in our opinion the already not unique phenomenon, i. e. the disappearance of the godess should be an element to typological separation: type "D". Thus in our proposition for the piece originally belonging to type 6 of Hampel, type D/e of Buday, type IV/B of IskraJanosic, and formally type I, content-wise type В of Tudor - together with the one from Aquincum and continuing the classification of Tudor concerning the content -, the separation of a new group; type "D" would be appropriate (HAMPEL 1905, BUDAY 1928, ISKRA-JANOSIC 1966, TUDOR 1976). Nothing extraordinary, divergent from the traditional classification can be seen on the remaining piece of the lead tablet. The find belongs to type 6 of Hampel, type D/c of Buday, type I/A (type Dalj) of Iskra-Janosic and formally type I while concerning the content, type В of Tudor (HAMPEL 1905, BUDAY 1928, ISKRA-JANOSIC 1966, TUDOR 1976). Talking about a new piece from Dunaszekcső (Lugio-castellum) we would only like to put an emphasis on our opinion again that the spread of the respect of the Danubian horseman was strongly connected to the army. The further direction of the research of the cult of the Danubian horseman may be the comparison with the similar depictions on 2 nd-3 rd century tomb stones. The majority of the icons appear on both kinds of objects, e. g. Sol, Luna, the lion, the tripod etc. There are also similarities between the funeral feasts and the inauguration ceremonies referring to nearly contemporary eastern influences (BARKÓCZI 1982).
