Agria 43. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2007)
Füvessy Anikó: Csontos nyergeinkről
LÁSZLÓ Gyula 1941 A koroncói lelet és a honfoglaló magyarok nyerge. Archeológia Hungarica XXVII. Budapest. RÉVÉSZ László 1993 Honfoglalás kori nyeregmaradványok Karasról. Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve XXX-XXXI. 105-125. Miskolc. TEMESVÁRY Ferenc 1995 Díszes nyergek, lószerszámok. Budapest. TORMA László 1979 Magyar csontos nyereg a XVHI. századból. Műtárgyvédelem 6.171-189. U. KŐHALMI Katalin 1972 A sztyeppék nomádja lóháton, fegyverben. Budapest. Anikó Füvessy Bone Saddles One group of the Hungarian-type saddles that can be found in private and public collections is decorated with bone inlay. The few examples that survive are made up of two types: one consists of a thick pommel disk, the other has a pommel that is spherical and somewhat thinner and longer. The decoration found on the two types also varies. The pattern on the diskshaped pommel is made up primarily of concentric circles, a motif going back many thousands of years. Despite the use of circular bone elements, stripes, trapezia and triangular elements, some of the surface is nevertheless left undecorated. This type, of which four examples survive, date from the end of the 17 th century and the first half of the 18 th century. Fifteen examples remain of the spherical pommel type on the top and bottom of which inscribed animals, genre scenes and Hungarian and imperial coats of arms can be found. They also have traces of green, blue or black sealing wax in the engraved furrows. The animal figures (lions, deer, eagles, falcons, unicorns, pelicans, griffins) also contain some symbolic references. In some pieces the incisions suggest the work of someone in the butchery trade. On two pieces there is a rich baroque, verging on rococo, foliage pattern decorating the arches of the pommel. On other examples such elements only take on a subsidiary function. Where we know their provenance most saddles come from southern Hungary, opening the possibility that there were a number of workshops active in the region during the second half of the 18 th century. 187
