"Rejtélyes fibulák" : régészeti vizsgálatok egy szokatlan tárgycsoport témájában

B. Tóth Ágnes and Miháczi-Pálfi Anett and Szebenyi Tamás: "Rejtélyes fibulák" : régészeti vizsgálatok egy szokatlan tárgycsoport témájában.

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Abstract

The extremly versatile find material at the Department of Classical Philology and Ancient History of the University of Debrecen is one of the less known archaeological collections in Hungary. The majority of objects there probably originate from various gifts and excavations, which were carried over by the professors of the Archaeological Department/Institute (Nándor Láng, Márton Roska and István Járdányi-Paulovics) between 1914 and 1952. Despite its importance, the find material was totally forgotten and a large quantity of items was lost during the multiple relocations. The identification of objects had begun again only in 2016. The lack of relevant inventories make the process slow, as we can mainly use indirect sources to determine the origin of the find material. The “mysterious brooches” were found in this collection, too. The seven unique items (six complete and one fragmentary) represent an unusual type in the find material of the Carpathian Basin (Fig. 1–7, 9). We only know their inventory numbers (R21–R27), otherwise the circumstances of their origins are unknown. It seems that their closest analogies are the brooches of the Schmidt collection (Fig. 8: 1–3.). It was Tibor Nagy who in 1962, called the attention of the research to these brooches. It is suspicious that their origins can’t be determined, like our objects from Debrecen. Unfortunately, these items were also lost during or after the Second World War, we only know them from photographs. Nagy sorted the brooches of the Schmidt collection into the Hunnic Period. In 1991, István Bóna referred to the brooches from the Schmidt collection as belonging to a set of brooches that had been taken from the Caucasus region. He collected the analogies of the type in Hungary and in the Northern Caucasus region. Among the Pannonian analogies, the one from the Pilismarót–Malompatak site (Fig. 8: 4) looks to some extent similar, but can’t be handled as an analogy of the items studies in this article. Overall, their technological design and the lack of information on their background make a strong suspicion against their originality. To answer this question, we conducted archaeometric studies in two independent institutes: at the Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (by Viktória Mozgai and Bernadett Bajnóczi) and at the Museum of Satu Mare (by Gheorghina Olariu and Cristian Virag). Results indicate that the brooches were manufactured of pure copper, with one exception (R26) (Fig. 6), which was made of brass. The objects were decorated with fire-gilding based on the detected mercury.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item
Other title: "Mysterious brooches" : archaeological investigations in the case of an unusual find type
Journal or Publication Title: Párducz 111. : konferencia Párducz Mihály (1908-1974) emlékére
Date: 2020
Volume: 8
ISSN: 2062-9877
ISBN: 978-963-306-774-1
Page Range: pp. 177-204
Series Name: Monográfiák a Szegedi Tudományegyetem Régészeti Tanszékéről
Language: Hungarian
Publisher: Szegedi Tudományegyetem Régészeti Tanszék
Place of Publication: Szeged
Event Title: Párducz 111. : konferencia Párducz Mihály (1908-1974) emlékére
Event Type: Conference
Event Location: Szeged
Event Dates: 2019
Related URLs: https://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/76787/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Régészet - leletek
Additional Information: Bibliogr.: p. 201-203. és a lábjegyzetekben ; ill. ; összefoglalás angol nyelven
Subjects: 06. Humanities
06. Humanities > 06.01. History and archaeology
Date Deposited: 2022. Nov. 09. 15:57
Last Modified: 2022. Nov. 09. 15:57
URI: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/76976

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