Kisné Cseh Julianna – Somorjai József szerk.: Komárom – Esztergom Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 5. (Tata, 1997)

Petényi Sándor: Germanic Statues Recently Found in Brigetio

Germanic Statues Recently Found in Brigetio Sándor Petényi In 1990 in Brigetio - in the territory of the canabae west from the castrum and south from the line of via principalis - two Germanic bronze statues were found. The one representing a man's head is not a satirical one, while the other, representing a bound German prisoner can be considered satiric. None of them have paralell in the Hungarian special literature. The appearance of bronze statues in Pannónia representing western Germans can be related to the quad-markomann wars in the 2nd half of the 2nd century. In Pannónia they were probabely manufactured in Brigetio which had a significant bronze processing industry and a small sculpture workshop. Today a relatively great number of Germanic bronze statues are known which were manufactured in Brigetio. The fact that even on the earthenware manufactured here there were attachements representing Germans, means that the different bronze vessels decorated with Germanic sculptures were generally used. The attachements are so similar on the sculptures found at Brigetio and near Musov that none of them could be made without knowing the other. One must count on such a group of Germanic Bronze sculptures which represent the Germans in their own dignity without any satiric marks. 279