Budapest Régiségei 24/1. (1976)

ÓBUDA, RÓMAI KORI TÁBOROK, CANABAE ÉS KÖZÉPKORI VÁROS = ÓBUDA, ROMAN CAMPS, CANABAE AND THE MEDIEVAL TOWN = OBUDA, LAGERÂ I KANABE RIMSKOJ EPOHI I SREDNEVEKOVYJ GOROD - Parragi Györgyi: A Bécsi uti ásatások újabb eredményei 163-169

GYÖRGYI PARRAGI: THE RESULTS OF THE RECENT EXCAVATIONS AT BÉCSI ROAD Further parts of the industrial plant were found at plot No. 124, Bécsi Road. The author uncovered a brick-furnace. The combustion chamber could be entered through a vaulted entrance. The floor was borne by arches resting on pillars, and between the latter the heat transmitting openings were placed. The furnace was supplied with two flues. Its walls were laid of bricks in burned red clay and pugged similarly with clay. Near the furnace the casting crucible was found, indicating glass melting, and also a semi-finished glass vessel turned up there. Piers belonging to an aqueduct and a further part of the drain running along the industrial plant were dug up west of the furnace. In the neighbourhood of the piers fragments of pottery dating to the 20s or 30s of the 2nd century A. D. were found, among them- thin-walled bowls with red painting, as well as terra sigillatas made in the Lezoux and Rheinzabern workshops

. Among the unadorned bowls the ones bearing the stamps MARCVS, PERPETVVS, COMITIALIS can be mentioned here which may be dated to the times of Hadrian. The group of antefixes adorned with Sol-Luna representations can be dated to the same time; next to them a sun-wheel and a negative mould representing Luna were found. The closest analogy of the negative mould can be considered the bronze Luna statue found at Szálacska. Looking back to indigenous sources the Sol-Luna cult, and a role in the official religious life also; in Rome the statue of Luna was set up by Hadrian. The astral symbols appearing on the antefixes are also to be found on the native Eraviscan gravestones of Pannónia. The pottery workshop which begun working at the time, still pursued the indigenous traditions, and could simultaneously meet the local taste and the official religious line of the state by manufacturing the terra cotta objects of the Sol cult. A negative mould showing Dionysus was found here. The fragment could haave been part of a vase representing a thiasos. There is a wreath of grape leaves round Dionysus' s head, in his left he holds a thyrsos. An analogy of this representation can be found on a relief in Naples, further on a marble crater in Vienna. This way of rendering, characteristic of Hadrian' s time, also recurs on bronze vessels. As to be concluded by the finds uncovered,of the part excavated in 1970-71, the extensive workshop situated near Bécsi Road, worked in the age of Hadrian; the aqueduct and drain could have been built similarly at that time. (Plates: 156-178) 167