Gáti Csilla (szerk.): A Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 54., 2016-2017 (Pécs, 2017)

RÉGÉSZET - Jovan D. Mitrović – Selena Vitezović: Zók revisited: Excavations of D. Karapandžić at Zók in 1920

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A?er the end of the First World War, the newly-organised Serbian government in Pécs organized a county committee, which was sent on the 9

th July 1920 to the village of Zók, to survey and examine the plateau on the hillfort, and to collect archaeological remains that were to be sent to Belgrade. ?e members of the committee were: wage worker Lajos Bozeró, who discovered today famous ornithomorphic askos, Damjan Stojšić, the chief count archivist, Aron Jakovljević, county clerk, Evgenij Lenkej, academic painter and Imre Boroš, journalist. ?e committee completed the survey by interviewing local inhabitants and owners of the land parcels on the hillfort plateau, a?er which they ‘’

... gained the full certification that the hill fort near Zók is filled with antique objects from the Stone and the Bronze Age

’’. A?er consulting the director of the City Museum in Pécs, archaeologist Dr. Ottó Szőnyi, Svetislav Rajić requested the Royal Serbian government to immediately delegate ‘’

an archaeological expert

’’ who was to conduct professional research of the above-mentioned territory and was to ensure that the recovered archaeological material may be sent to Belgrade before the planned Serbian evacuation from Pécs (defined by the Treaty of Trianon, signed on the June 4

th 1920).

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: ?e records of the county comittee on the research on the research of the hill fort near the village of Zók. АNМ, № ?, Box 18.

Archive material from the National Museum Archives in Belgrade were used (ANM later in text).

1920, July 30

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: ?e petition by D. Karapandžić, assistant director of the National Museum to the Fig. 1: Archaeological excavations in Zók 1920 (Property of National Museum in Belgrade, Serbia)