Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis. – Alba Regia. Az István Király Múzeum Évkönyve. 19. 1979 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: C sorozat (1981)
Szemle – Rundschau - Fitz Jenő: András Alföldi. p. 284.
ANDRÁS ALFÖLDI 1895-1981 Working till the last day of his life, András Alföldi, one of the XX th century's greatest figures in the studies of antiquity, has died on February 12 1981 at the age of 86. On behalf of the Hungarian world of science it is the mournful but honouring duty of the undersigned, as one of Alföldi's last Hungarian disciples, to commemorate this already closed and exceptional career, in the Numizmatikai Közlöny his numismatic activity and in Acta Archaeologica his outstanding role in Hungarian research work. The monumental life-work including a large number of highly valuable publications would certainly permit further commemorations without the risk of repeating oneself (for instance, his works of abiding value dealing with other issues than the different epochs of Pannónia, the Danubian region or the Roman empire). Here and now, however, I think it means something more personal than an habitual commemoration to remember those contacts which have attached András Alföldi to the museum of Székesfehérvár. While gathering the material for Die Inschriften Pannoniens (Material für eine neue Auflage des III. Bandes des Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum)— lost in 1947— ,he systematically recorded in the 30's and the early 40's not only the Roman inscriptions guarded in the lapidarium of the museum, but also the stone monuments he found at their original site, or in a park, in farm buildings or in the wall of churches. The photo collection of the museum still includes Alföldi's photos of these stones which had Ьгеп placed in the museum since 1950, following his collecting activity. In those times he published or revaluated a large number of historically or epigraphically significant stone monuments, such as an altar in Vetus Salina mentioning a Batavian goddess (Eine batavische Göttin in Pannonién. EpigraphicaI. Pannónia, T, 1935), or a stele found in Székesfehérvár and referring to a Gothic expedition (Die Erwähnung eines Gotenkrieges auf einem Steindenkmal des Museums von Székesfehérvár. Epigraphica II. AÉrt, LH, 1939). In his paper on the residence of the provincial assembly of Lower Pannónia he treated in details the interpretation of two inscriptions from Sárpentele (CIL, III, 3342, 3343) and a third one from Székesfehérvár (CIL, III, 3345), modifying the rading of the latter (Der Sitz des unterpannonischen Provinziallandtages und zwei bedeutende Denkmäler des Dolichenus-Kultes von Aquincum. Epigraphica III. AÉrt, III/2, 1940). However, his hypotheses on the site of the provincial assembly and on the forcible removal of the stones from Sárpentele and Székesfehérvár were not supported by the results of later excavations in Gorsium. In a further chapter of the article published in Epigraphica III he treated two other inscriptions found in County Fejér, referring to Aquincum (Auf die städtische Organisation von Aquincum bezüglichen Denkmäler. Epigraphica III. AÉrt, Ш/1, 1940). In the last article of the series he published the fragment of a sepulchral monument of a Batavian praefectus cohortis from Pusztaszabolcs (Ein Bataver als Kommandant einer betavischen Hilfstruppe in Pannonién. Epigraphica IV. AÉrt, III/2, 1941). His contacts with the museum and its former directors Arnold Marosi and Árpád Dormuth were not broken off after Alföldi has definitively left Hungary. Far away from his earlier research area, he now treated Pannónia but exceptionally; however, the new editions of his fundamental historical, numismatical and archaeological works repeatedly required the completion of his data and documentations. In this work he could always rely upon King Stephen Museum as on a firm basis. /. Fitz 284
