Mária T. Biró: The Bone Objects of the Roman Collection. (Catalogi Musei Nationalis Hungarici. Seria Archeologica 2; Budapest, 1994)

CATALOGUE

shape. The top is missing. The exterior is decorated centrally with a groove. H: 1.8 cm, Diam: 2.8 cm. Inv. 54.66.21. 11. POMMEL (II. 11.) Óbuda, Filatori gát (Budapest) Small, bell-shaped bone object. The interior is hollowed to a globular shape and there is a small bone peg pressed into the top of the object. H: 2.3 cm, Diam: 2.1 cm. Inv. 13.1882.33. 12. POMMEL (II. 12.) Unknown. Small bell-shaped bone object. The interior is hollowed to a globular shape. The exterior is decorated centrally with groove. H: 2.1 cm, Diam: 2.5 cm. Inv. 54.66.26. 13. HILT GUARD (III. 13.) Unknown. Oval bone plate with protruding ribs on either side. The perforation for the tongue of the hilt is rectangular. L: 9.0 cm, W: 3,7 cm, Th: 1.7 cm. Inv. 54.66.19. 14. HILT (III. 14.) Szőny (Komárom County). On the bronze hilt, 5-6 mm thick bone discs were placed alternating with 2 mm thick bronze pieces in a way that the diameter of the circular plates was gradually diminished. L: 5.2 cm, Diam: 1.1-1.9 cm. Inv. 81.1879.6. Bíró (1987a) 160. Fig. 3. 12. 15. HILT (III. 15.) Szőny (Komárom County). Bone cylinder decorated with row of astragalos. Broken at both ends. L: 5.1 cm, Diam: 2.1 cm. Inv. 152.885.435. Bíró (1987a) 160. Fig. 3. 13. 16. HILT (III. 16.) Szőny (Komárom County). Bone cylinder divided at both ends with horizontal grooves. In the central field covered with obliquely running, plastically formed, grooves. One end of the cylinder is broken. L: 9.5 cm, Diam: 2.2 cm. Inv. 141.1888.38. 17. HILT (III. 17.) Dunapentele (Fejér County). Bone cylinder divided by horizontally incised cuts. L: 3.7 cm, Diam: 2.3-2.7 cm. Inv. 60.1.57. 18. SCABBARD SLIDE (IV. 18.) Unknown. Fleissig collection. Narrow longitudinal bone object. In the middle is a rectangular opening to receive the suspension belt; through the two circular holes at both sides the loop was fastened to the sheath. The narrower face of the carving is finished with a straight line while the other is carved with a schematic floral decoration. L: 10.9 cm, H: 2.0 cm. Inv. 3.1950.52. 19. SCABBARD SLIDE (IV. 19.) Szőny (Komárom County). Fragment of one half of a bone loop to be fastened at both ends. L: 8.3 cm, H: 1.5-1.3 cm. Inv. 447.152.885. Bíró (1987a) 160. Fig. 3. 14. 20. SCABBARD CHAPE (IV. 20.) Szőny (Komárom County). Reverse of a scabbard chape. Trapezoid bone object with an incised line on both longituduinal sides. The two narrower sides have wedge-shaped cuts. Unearthed by A. Radnóti, in 1942 from Szőny, from area of the Castrum, from working section IV., in a depth of 110 cm. L: 5.4 cm, W: 3.7-2.7 cm. Inv. 3.1952.42. Bíró (1987a) 158. Fig. 2. 9. 21. SCABBARD CHAPE (IV. 21.) Szőny (Komárom County). Front and back of a scabbard chape. Found together, still joined to each other. The reverse is undecorated. The longitudinal side of the front face is bordered by plastically formed ribs. In a field bordered by these ribs an elliptic form can be seen, in the two upper corners a perforated pelta motif is carved. The whole plate is divided symmetrically by a central, projecting rib. L: 6.7 cm, W: 4.0-5.1 cm. Inv. 152.1885.445. Bíró (1987a) 156. Fig. 2. 8.