Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

■ Sándor Kozmá i Justice (Stróbl Alajoi, 1882)

a pair of scales in her left, relying on these and, even more heavily, on a lawbook. Although it is now on permanent exhibition in the Hungarian National Gallery, few are fully aware of the memorial value of the statuette.

Kozma's grave is also guarded by Justice. The open competition of designs for the tombstone was won in 1902 by Ede Kallós, who placed the goddess’s crowned head upon a Roman column. A mournful male figure is seated at the foot of the column. His costume — a toga - is another allusion to the fountainhead of modern jurisdiction, Roman law. The law-book at his foot is a support and a warranty. The epitaph sums up pithily the First Pest Royal Prosecutor’s and his life-work’s significance: "The apostle of justice and charity. The embodiment of Hungarian law. The father and perennial guiding spirit of the Royal Prosecutor's Office."

On the building at 23 Nádor utca is the customary inscribed plaque announcing that it was here that the first Royal Prosecutor resided from 1868 to his death in 1897. On the second floor above were the lodgings of Franz Liszt between 1871 and 1873.

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