Budapest Régiségei 14. (1945)

ÉRTESÍTŐ - Szilágyi János: A Fővárosi Múzeum rómaikori kutatásai és az Aquincumi Múzeum gyarapodása az 1943-1944. években 451-467

Kuzsinszky, Budapest Régiségei XI., 1932, fig. 79., 57.) This recently discovered barrel well suitable for a potter proves, that during the development of the civil settlement, the industrial workshops were transferred towards the Bast, towards the Danube. During the ' second building period, the older rubbish coming from the mural-painting plaster was smoothed down and the differences in the ground level were filled up with it. We gathered here fragments of mural paintings enough to fill several cases. There were also figured ornaments. We have asked Ferdinand Láng to give their description. On the territory East to the building of the Museum that was not yet explored, we excavated in Summer 1943 and 1944 the further parts of the civil quarter. Among the smaller finds, there were some terra sigillata fragments (red glazed ware, decorated with reliefs) of vessels with the following name stamps : MILVTTA P, VICTORIOUS F, AVGV.

. ., SOLLEMNIS F, CROBISOM, AETERNI, MINIITIA, CINTVSMVS F, CRICIRONIS. On the rim of a braying dish, we found the stamp : NHVIIR. In 1944 we began to explore the territory North to the Museum and not yet dug up. The most important of the smaller finds is a silver OTHO coin in a very good state, proving, that the sewer system, one of the most important factors of the Aquincum civilisation, was built the latest during the reign of the emperor Vespasian (a successor of Otho, 69—79 A. D.). On the territory of the Aquincum civil settlement, the exploration of the hitherto not yet excavated parts was brought to a standstill by an air raid on 5th IX 1944, about 11 a. m. But we hope to be able later to continue our excavations and then we shall have an opportunity to give further details of our results. This blow to the Museum and to the cultural activity of the Hungarian capital happened on the 50th anniversary of the Aquincum Museum, just when we were about to unveil the memorial tablet of Valentine Kuzsinszky

, the founder of the Museum (fig. 4, the work of the sculptor József Ispánki) and to enlarge the Museum (fig. 5, the plan for enlargement being the work of Sándor 67. Zakariás, the model was constructed by the sculptor Károly Antal). Beside our excavations in the Aquincum civil quarter, we had also opportunity to excavate in the military town. On the territory of the Nagybdtony-Ujlak brick-works, between the eastern end of the kiln No. 3. and the artisans' dwelling house No XVII (near to the entrance Zápor street No. 90) a late-Roman stone coffin was discovered. Its bottom was laid out with large bricks fitted together with adhesive substance. The .sides were put together from tiny and bigger stone plates with an adhesive substance containing some lime. Its cover consisted of two flat stone-blocks. Its direction is largely E-W, the length being 170, the width 72—74 cm (inner measure). The height is 54-5 cm. This stone coffin was ravaged, the skeleton scattered, the skull smashed. Next to the coffin, obviously from the soil that was thrown out if it, we sifted coins of Constantine and Valentinian and a bone hair-pin (with a cock). So the deceased belenged to the female sex. On one of the bricks at the bottom of the stone coffin we can read the following stamp consisting of two lines : LEG II ADI (To this type see : /. Szilágyi, Inscriptiones tegularum pannonicarum, 1933.). From the new aquisitions of the Aquincum Museum we have to mention the fragment of a tomb-stone (fig. 6.) which was brought from the courtyard of the architect Gyula Egerzeiger (V. district, Váci-ro&á. No. 60) to the Museum and which he kindly ceded to us. This fragment was found in the Buda Castle Ward during the building of the Ministry of Finance. It is obviously the fragment of a family-grave (the height being 66, the greatest width 54-5, the thickness 25-5 cm, the height of the letters 3 to 466