Fitz Jenő (szerk.): Religions and Cults in Pannonia. Exhibiton an Székesfehérvár, Csók István Gallery 15 May - 30 September 1996 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: A. sorozat 33. (1998)

MERCURIUS SANCTUARY - SAVARIA, VIII. The three-naved sanctuary with a portico was built close to the streets inside the town-wall. Its entrance was from the east. Beside the bases of the pillars in the inside area sacrifical urns covered by flat bricks were put. A coin was put among the burnt animal bones into each urn. In the urn containing a coin of Claudius there was also an egg. The sanctuary was probably founded under the reign of the emperor Vespasianus. It is proved by a Vespasianus coin found in another urn, wich was minted in Rome in 73. Later the sanctuary was rebuilt. Some coins of the emperor Traianus from 98 and 105-110 were found in the filling earth under the raised pillars. The altars of the te renewed shrine were erected to Iupiter Optimus Maximus and Mercurius. Around a small niche in the back south-western part of the shrine tiny bronze sculptures of Venus, Victoria, Fortuna and the Mother Goddess came to the surface. A limestone relief of Mercurius, a clay lucerne and a hydria were fallen into the lararium. A great number of wicks, plates, pots and censers abounded all over the sanctuary. Measures: 18,5x16,5 m, 13x11 m inside. It is from the second half of the 1st and the first half of the 3rd centuries. BUÓCZ-SZENTLÉLEKY 1991; BUÓCZ 1991a, 13-25; BUÓCZ 1991b, 183-198; BUÓCZ 1992, 9-22, 111. 16. T.B. 35. Mercurius relief The background is brick-shaped, standing on its small side, the torso of the youth standing out of it. He is represented en face, naked, wearing only a mantle on his shoulders. Head and lower legs are missing. The lost head, which raised over the brick-shaped background, was fastened to the neck on the back by indenting. Over the right of the figure remains of hair. The athletic youth holds in his lowered right a money-bag (marsupium), in his left bent in the elbow a magic wand (caduceus). His hands are disproportionately elongated. The large measures of his mantle are conspicuous; over the shoulder a round brooch. Before the chest a wide drapery, folded in large, bulging, curved lines, leading to his left arm by an S-shaped line, from this it falls down in wavy folds. On the mantle at several spots remains of red paint can be seen. The representation is a transition between a round sculpture and a relief. It can be led back to a classical Greek prototype, the Doryphoros of Polycleitus. The figure, made according to the rules of proportion, reflects the influence of the stone-dresser school of Virunum. - 2nd century. -Reverse: 19,2x13x2,4 cm. Body: 19,5 cm; shoulder W.: 9 cm; waist W.: 4,5 cm- Szombathely (Savaria), Járdányi Paulo vies István Romkert-Püspökkert, so-called Mercurius sanctuary. - SM, Inv. no. 87.5.1. BUÓCZ-SZENTLÉLEKY 1991; BUÓCZ 1991a, 22, Fig.13: BUÓCZ 1991b, 183-198; BUÓCZ 1992, 21, 111. 20. T.B. : ; , j \ j j ! | ! ,y_.,-4—•—-*- -t I—*.-..—-j- -i I—Η!——-J— 67