Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis. – Alba Regia. Az István Király Múzeum Évkönyve. 24. 1986-1988 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: C sorozat (1990)

Tanulmányok – Abhandlungen - Petres Éva, F.: The Problem of the Celtic Survival in Pannonia. p. 7–15.

500km Fig. 6: Distribution of La Tène cart-burials in Europe (after Stead 1979, 27 - with the sites of Carpathian basin) 1 Yorkshire group 2 Leval-Trahegenies 3 Inglemare (Belboef) 4 Nanterre 5 Paris 6 Attichy 7 Armentières 8 Champagne group 9 Maubert-Fontaine 10 Neufchâtaeu group 11 Hunsriick-Eifel group 12 Hofovicky 13 Mirkovice 14 Manetín-Hrádek 15 Sedlec-Hurka 16 Ëelkovice 17 Dum berg bei Hallein 18 Hatvan-Boldog 19 Arnót 20 Balsa 21 Hódság (Odzaci) 22 Beograd-Karaburma 23 Brezice 24 Székelykeresztúr (Sacuesi) 25 Prázsmár (Toarlaca) present-day Hungary (HUNYADY 1942-44, 152). These cremation graves included only parts of carts, no horse bones and only parts of harness mounts. Thus, the horse as such was not actually interred and the cart only symbolically. They can be dated from the boundary between Early and Middle La Tène (LT B

2-C). Their common trait is that they are not covered by mounds and so are not true tumulus graves. To this group belong the graves in Érkörtvélyes (Curtiseni), Székelykeresztúr (Cristul Sacuesc), and Prázsmár (Toarcla) in the South-eastern part of the Carpathian basin, in present Roumania (Vegh 1984, 109). A southern vehicle-burial on the actual territory of Jugoslavia is somewhat different : the cart-burial of Hódság (Odzaci) included not only parts of cart, but also human and horse bones and weapons (2 swords, shield, 5 spears), it was identificated by De Navarro as tomb of two men, its age La Tène C

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. (Roediger 1904, 350-; De Navarro 1959, 90; Gustin 1984, 121-, 131). An other find has been discovered in the South-west of Slovenia in Brezice, including parts of a two-wheeled cart, but the weapons characteristic of the other warrior-graves of the cemetery (spear, shield) are not present (grave 6, Gustin 1984, 114-, 131). Vehicle-burials of the Roman Age are attached in Pannónia to the area of the Eravisci. The most representative of the burials with tumulus, horse and cart are the grave finds excaveted in Inota. S. Pal agyi has discovered here two tumuli. Surrounded by a ditch, the 1

st tumulus was the cremation grave of a young boy, with a horse complete with harness (his riding horse) in a separate pit. The 2

nd tumulus, surrounded by a stone-wall, was raised for a man of some 30 to 40 years, with a four-wheeled wagon next to him; three horses, two for traction and one for an out-rider were buried in separate pits. The graves included also imported luxury articles (glass, 'Fazettenbecher', terrae sigillatae) and a toilett set (jug, patera, strigil), but the everyday vessels on the other hand were the products of native potters (pots, red-painted urns). Both the dead received also some weapons : the young boy a shield with iron umbo and handle surviving, a dagger, arrows and a spear; while a shield {umbo, painted wood), a long gladius, a spear and an iron knife were placed in the grave of the adult man. The barrows were raised more or less contemporaneously, one at the turn of the l

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nd с and the other in the first third of the 2

nd с (Palágyi 1981, 17-). The weapons found in the tumuli of Inota actually have significantly increased the number of graves with weapons comparatively rare in the Early Imperial Period and contributed to a certain extent to the better interprétions of the question of them. (Nuber 1972, 501, note 103). The dead of the 1

st tumulus was very young or still a child who could not have reached the status of a warrior as yet. His weapons may be distinguishing marks of a hunter or rather demonstrating his high social position. 12