Ikvai Nándor szerk.: Tanulmányok Pest megye múzeumaiból (Studia Comitatensia 2. Szentendre, 1973)

Régészet - Topál Judit: Bronzkori lemezdiadém Ócsáról

Judit Topái: BRONZE AGE PLATE DIADEM FROM ÖCSA In March of 1972 a new Bronze Age treasure find was found at Ocsa (County Pest). The so-called Koszider type find will be soon published in its details. Here we are dealing with one of the most important pieces of this remarkable treasure-find only. This new specimen (L. 54 cms; B. 2,6—3,1 cms) belongs to the group of the roll-ended and punched-edged plate diadems (fig. 1.). Dealing with the Bronze Age plate diadems István Bona has proved that the jewel appears first in the Middle Danube Basin during the Middle and Late Copper Age (Vukovar, Vörs). He fixes the origin of the jewel to Asia Minor and it was brought to the Danube Basin by southern peoples. In the Middle Bronze Age the roll-ended punched-edged diadems (Bybios type) appear in great numbers in the Middle Danube Basin and they reach the neighbouring areas of Slovakia and Austria (Hurbanovo, Velky Grob, Straubing, Gemeinlebarn, Spitz etc.). The very centre of their radiation is the territory of the Vatya culture. The local development of the jewel from the middle to the end of the Middle Bronze Age is illustrated by the specimen of Dunapentele (fig. 2.) and Lovasberény-Jánoshegy (fig. 3.). The best analogie of our diadem is the abovementioned piece of Dunapentele. The diadem of Lovasberény-Jánoshegy, together with the specimen of Kemecse (fig. 4.) is apparently a little bit younger than ours, so we can fix our diadem to the metallurgy of the Late Vatya culture before the end of the Middle Bronze Age (Reinecke ВВ. Mozsolics В III).