A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 32. Kunt Ernő emlékére. (1994)

TANULMÁNYOK - TOMKA Péter: Belső-Ázsia a magyar népvándorlás kori régészet látókörében (magyar és angol nyelven)

found under similar circumstances and they have analogies even from the Avar period. The custom, that is a funeral sacrifice, buried separately (I do not call them pyre finds because there are no burn marks on the Pannonhalma objects) can be traced through the whole steppe region as far as Inner Asia (tajniks from the Turkic period, ogradki, cenophtas). The custom was observed among different Northern Eurasian nomads (from the Finno-Ugrians till the Tunguz at the Amur) even in the recent past. Finally I should like to speak of the Árpás find and of a single object. The burial find was found dug into the ruins of a Roman town. The glass vessel, small earthen cup, jug with slurry, golden girdle- and shoe-buckles, hair pincers of the find, but even its large bronze vessel, which has no true parallels known so far, fit well into the 5th century, that is into a Pannonian environment in the Hun period. However, an animal figure covered with golden sheet, found beside the vertabrae, is a peculiar object. It has analogies from both Eastern Europe and the Kazakhstan steppe (Beljaus, Novogrigorevka, Kzil-Kajnat-Tobe) but a great quantity and different variants of it are known from Tuva (and from Kyrgyzia, from a considerably later period). Here I should like to return to an earlier part of my lecture where I spoke of Flóris Römer who had made the similar Katanda finds to be known. It seems impossible that the above-mentioned object could get into the Carpathian Basin in other way than through the migration of the Huns. And I should like to ask our Korean colleagues whether they know finds like this one? I would be grateful for their help... 178