Vezető a Déri Múzeum kiállításaihoz (Debrecen, 1978)

English Summary

The bronze-mirrors carved on their backside form a special genre of late Etruscan bronzecraf t. The glasspot (vitriné 3.) were made by the method of glass-blowing, invented at the beginning of the imperial period. Being cheap they were widely popular. In the bottom of the vitriné carved ring-stones so-called gems can be found. Wearing these gems was very fashionable during the imperial period. First of all they used them for sealing, but to some types, depending on their material and ornamentation, they attributed magic power. In the next vitriné a Corinthian bronze helmet among the bronze objects was made about 600 B. C. The bronze-sword beside it decorated with engraved, geometrical patterns on its sheath was a widely spread type in Italy in the 8th

—7th centuriers B. C. The bronze-disc was the weapon of a smaller central-Italian tribe (samnis). In the last vitriné, amond the simple, unpainted pots, the so-called embossed terra-sigilatta pots, made in the Gallic workshops, are remarkable. At the back wall Hellenic and Roman statues, a tomb and an altar are exhibited. The vases are placed in the middle of the hall from which the most outstanding one is a slim, doubleeared loutroforos. This kind of pot was used at the wedding ceremonies when the bride was given a bath. The small, cylindrical, narrow-necked lekhütos was mainly used at the funeral ceremonies. After the decline of the Athenean vase-painting these pots were copied in the South-Italian workshops. A nice example of the ornamental style is the columncrater with ears ending in a disc, a godess with heads painted white and yellow. LIST OF FIGURES 1. Bronze weapons. Egypt, Middle empire 2. Bastet godess, amulet. Egypt, late period 3. Faince Usebti. Egypt, Sais period 4. Apis bull, bronze. Egypt, Sais period 5. Coptic textile rags. Egypt, 6th

—7th centuries A. D. 6. Sitting child. Terracotta, 3rd—2nd centuries B. C. Greek. 7. Standing Venus, bronze. Roman, 1st century A. D. 8. Bronze-mirror. Etruscan, 3rd—2nd centuries B. C. 9a. Gem, Zeus, Roman, 3th century A. D. 9b. Gem, Nike, Roman, 3th century A. D. 10. Hellenistic altar. Asia Minor, 2nd century B. C. 11. Hydria with a figure of a sitting woman in a sepulchre. Italian, 4th century B. C. THE ORIENTAL COLLECTION OF THE DÉRI MUSEUM The oriental collection of the Déri Museum is the most complete one after the Hopp Ferenc Far-Eastern Art Museum and the Ethnographical Museum in Budapest. Déri Frigyes was led by that enlightened didactical point of view in its foundation that it should open a wider gate towards the culture 409