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.
Out of the many fragments belonging to the halfportraits of the Seasons, and the encircling medallions, only another medallion detail cold be put together yet, depicting Spring with a green-leaf garland in her hair. (Plate VIII. , Fig. 23.) Due to the fragmentary surface the colour of the dress is not known yet. Based on the place it was found it could be located in the north-western corner of the ceiling. So far no surface worth showing could be assembled from the fragments of the half-portraits of Winter and Autumn personifications. However, the location of Spring and Summer suggests that the Autumn decorated the south-eastern, while Winter decorated the south-western corner. Fragments of another, more decorated medallion were found too, forming only smaller surfaces. The size of the medallion, that is red outside and green inside, is approximately twice the size of those in the corner. The radius of the circle that gives the inner side of the red, and at the same time the outer side of the green stripe is 2 Roman feet. On the green stripe radiating black and blue strokes of the brush start, of which the black strokes go through the red stripe as well. (Plate VIII., Fig. 24.) At the inner side of the frame runs a highly decorated wreath motif, consisting of dark and light ochre, red and white highlights, painted in a black glazing colour. The outer part of the medallion is encircled by a line painted in red, with red flower motifs. The centre of the flowers, connecting with the red stripe, is red here as well, with a black dot in it. Based on its size and the arched surface the assembled female figure in a very light and loose blue dress was most probably encircled by this medallion, although no encircling fragment could be yet fitted to its surface. (Plate VIII., Fig. 25.) The medallion with the decorative nude was located in the middle of the ceiling. 15 In the ornament filling the area between the medallions, the system of lines of circles crossing each other is used. (Plate VIII., Fig. 26.) Small leaves run along the green circles, forming wreath, painted on the white background, which are red outside the circle, while the colour of the inner leaves differ in each circle. On the line of touching circles, with black inner leaves, in a distance of their radius an other line of circles is painted, where the colours of the inner leaves alternate between yellow and green by each circle. In the cross-section of the black and yellow and green leaves there is a small, red decorative element painted in lines, maybe a jewel motif. From the excavated fragments large surfaces of the wall-paintings of the former room may be restored. With the progress of the work solution for unsolved questions may turn to be clear, and the authentic theoretical reconstruction of the room may be performed. Accordingly, the wall-paintings could be shown even at their original place in a reconstructed room, as a special feature of Gorsium Archaeological Park, since the in situ dado surfaces provide a completely authentic base of connection to the restored surfaces of the collapsed walls. There are many analogies for such an arrangement of ceiling medallions. For example a room of a civic house of the roman Nida (Frankfurt/M.-Heddernheim) from the first half of the second century. M. Schleiermacher: Der Freskenraum von Nida. Saalburg Jahrbuch 48, 1995,52-99 46
