Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis. – Alba Regia. A Szent István Király Múzeum Évkönyve. 32. 2002 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: C sorozat (2003)

Tanulmányok – Abhandlungen - Harsányi Eszter–Kurovszky Zsófia: Theoretical reconstruction of a room from the 3rd century A.D., excavated in Tác/Gorsium, based on information gathered during the excavation and the restoring process of the wall-painting fragments (Preliinary report). p. 35–42.

frame of a white line, its corners are emphasized with a schematic flower motif, also painted in white. In the vertical central axis of the fields, most probably at eye level, there is certainly some kind of a decoration, which is not depicted on picture panels, but directly on the red background. (Plate V., Fig. 5.) The black and red fields are separated from each other and the dado, and are closed at the top by approximately 5 cm wide yellow stripes with white borders. The width of the red fields together with the framing yellow stripes with white borders, is 4 Roman feet (118,4 cm), is given by the perfectly fitting fragments of an assembled surface. The uncovering place indicates that it was located at the southern end of the eastern wall. With one exception the width of the candelabra panels with black background known so far is approximately 1 Roman foot.

б No full height could be put together from the fragments of the wide red fields, or the candelabra panels up to this time. Nevertheless, the side proportion of the wide panels, similar to these red fields, is most often 3:2.

7 Based on this, since the width is 4 Roman feet (118,4 cm), the height is probably 6 Roman feet (177,6 cm). After processing the entire material found, and assembling all the potential fragments, probably this can be precisely defined as well. On the upper parts of the walls, above the yellow stripe with white border framing the fields, an 8-9 cm high decorative motif imitating stucco-cornice leads through to the arched surface of the barrel vault. (Plate V., Fig. 6.) The painted motif is primarily a spectacular ornament; the intention was not a perfect, illusionistic depiction. (Plate V., Fig. 7.) The cornice motif ran along the longitudinal walls of the room, but there is not enough information about the decoration under the lunettes on the shorter walls. Decoration of the eastern wall at its top, the fragments of which, based on the place they were found, were presumably situated here, but they could not yet be connected to the large surface. (Plate VI, Fig. 10.) The surface with stylised floral motifs, was placed under the surface with the bird during the excavation, does not fit to the top of the candelabra, but based on the uncovering place can be assumed that it belongs there. The fragments of the red surface at its left side form the bottom right corner of the north red field.

8 (Plate VI, Fig. 11.) It is likely therefore that there were three, 4 Roman feet wide red fields, and two, 1 Roman foot wide candelabra panels were situated on the eastern wall. The longer sides of the room are 15 Roman feet long, (Fig. 12.) therefore on the 1 Roman foot wide surface left at the north end of the wall, a third candelabra panel can be placed. N W E The southern end of the 15 Roman feet long wall begins with a red field as it is seen on the large surface assembled at the excavation based on the place the fragments were found. (Plate V., Fig. 8.) Moving from south to north a candelabra panel with a black background is connected to the red surface. Beside the main motif composed of stylised floral elements, using primarily light and dark ochre colour, in the background of the candelabra green leaves appear at a few places. (Plate V., Fig. 9.) This is followed by a wide red field, then again a candelabra with a black background, crowned with a bird During painting differences in keeping the sizes naturally occurred. Most of the examples shows this proportion in the center of the Empire and in the Provinces as well. Cf.: Ling, R.: Roman Painting, Cambridge University Press, 1991 Fig. 12. There is only one fragment on which under the yellow stripe with the white border the black background of the upper left corner of a candelabra panel is visible, and based on the perpendicular forward bending of the plaster on its left side, as well as on the arched surface, it could have been part of the north end of the eastern wall.

9 (Plate In the surface assembled following the excavation, based on the place the fragments were found at, the detail of the candelabra panel is turned 180 degrees. (Fig.3.). All together there are 4 arched fragments, on which the outer and upper corner of the side fields of the eastern and the northern wall can be seen. On two of these the forward bending of the plaster, due to the perpendicular wall, appear on the left side, but while on one of 43