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ANODOS
Studies of the Ancient World

10/2010

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ANODOS Studies of the Ancient World 10/2010

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Proceedings of the International Conference

THE PHENOMENA OF CULTURAL BORDERS AND BORDER CULTURES ACROSS THE PASSAGE OF TIME (From the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity)

Dedicated to the 375th anniversary of Universitas Tyrnaviensis

Trnava, 22 - 24 October 2010

CONTENTS
PREFACE BALDIRAN, A. An Osthotech with Hunting Scene in umra Sral Hyk ............................................................................................. 9 BARTUS, D. Roman Figural Bronzes From Brigetio: Preliminary Notes ................................................................................................ 17 BLAKOLMER, F. Ethnizitt und Identitt in der minoisch-mykenischen Ikonographie .........................................................................................29 BOUZEK, J. Frontiers in Pre-Roman Thrace ............................................................................................................................................... 41 CHALUPA, A. Mithraism in Ancient Syria: Persian Cult on the Borders of the Roman Empire ............................................................. 57 DABACAK, C. An Essay on the Heating Costs of Roman Baths .................................................................................................................. 67 DIMITROVA, Y. Rodopi Mountain Between Thrace and Aegea Region: Some Elements of a Border Culture of Early Iron Age in Southern Bulgaria .................................................................. 71 DOKSANALTI, E. M. - MIMIROLU, . M. Giresun/Aretias - Kalkeritis Island ......................................................................................................................................... 85 DUBCOV, V. Gtter ohne Grenzen? Transfer der religisen Ikonographie in der Bronzezeit Alter Orient und die frhe gis ....................................................................................................................................... 103 GOLUBOVI, S. MRI, N. Territory of Roman Viminacium - From Celtic to Slavic Tribes ....................................................................................... 117 HLAVOV, S. Greek Heroes on the Borders of the Historical Periods ..................................................................................................... 127 KLONTZA-JAKLOV, V. The Meaning of Time in Late Bronze Age Europe and its Reflection in Material Culture .......................................... 133 KOVCS, P. Sarmatian Campaigns During the First Tetrarchy ............................................................................................................. 143 KOVLIK, L. The Gate Wall and the Doors of Greek Propyla ................................................................................................................. 155 KUERKOV, K. The Upland Settlements of the Pchov Culture and Germanic Tribes Beyond the North-Pannonian Frontier, in the Mountainous Part of Central Slovakia ...................................................................................................... 163 LAZAR, I. The Inhabitants of Roman Celeia - An Insight into Intercultural Contacts and Impacts Trough Centuries ............................................................................................................................. 175 MUSILOV, M. Bratislavaer Burg - Arx Boiorum im Lichte der neuesten archologischen Funde Archologische Forschung - Winterreithalle ................................................................................................................................187 NMEROV, A. Relations Between Greeks and Scythians in Black Sea Area ....................................................................................................207

NOVKOV, L. Funeral Rites and Cultural Diversity in Hellenistic Caria Based on Epigraphic and Archaeological Evidence ........................................................................................................... 213 ONDERKA, P. DUFKOV, M. Die meroitische Sttte in Wad Ben Naga, Republik Sudan ............................................................................................... 223 PAPOUEK, D. Centrality and Cosmopolitism in the Lukan Imagination of Paul of Tarsus: A Case of Jerusalem ................................................................................................................................................................ 247 POBEIN, G. Sources and History: Crossing From Archives to Historiography and Back The Development of Historiographical Method and Episteme in Respect of Using Archival Sources ................................................................................................................................... 255 POPOV, H. JOCKENHVEL, A. At the Northern Borders of the Mycenaean World: Thracian Gold Mining from the Late Bronze and the Early Iron Age at Ada Tepe in the Eastern Rhodopes ......................................................................................... 265 VAA, K. The influence of Roman provincial pottery manufacture on the production of the Suebic wheel-made pottery ....................................................................................................... 283 TRANTALIDOU, K. BELEGRINOU, E. ANDREASEN, N. Pastoral Societies in the Southern Balkan Peninsula. The Evidence From Caves Occupied During the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Era ......................................................... 295 VERK, M. Die griechischen Bewaffnung im Lichte des kulturellen Austausches ............................................................................ 321 ZIMMERMANN, Th. Legal Aliens on Hattian Grounds? Tracing the Presence of Foreigners in 3rd Millennium Central Anatolia ....................................................................................................................................... 335

Preface

The publication of ANODOS 10/2010 contains 27 articles in English and German which were presented in the form of papers and posters at the international conference The Phenomena of Cultural Borders and Border Cultures Across the Passage of Time (From the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity) which was held in Trnava on the 22th - 24th of October 2010. The participants consisted of scholars from eleven countries (Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, the USA and the Slovak Republic). Graduate and post-graduate students from Trnava participated in both the organization of the conference and the actual programme. The conference was organized on the occasion of the 375th anniversary of Universitas Tyrnaviensis (1635-1777), the first university in the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary, which then included the historical town of Trnava. The current renewed Trnava University in Trnava (1992), situated in the Slovak Republic, follows the ideas and academic identity of the original university. At the same time, in 2010 it had been ten years since the Department of Classical Archaeology at Trnava University had established the tradition of organizing international scientific conferences on specific themes in chronological sequence from the Late Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. The idea came from Prof. Dr. Mria Novotn, the founder of the Department and of the Classical Archaeology study programme in Slovakia. The conferences have been held every two-three years so far (in 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2007) and they have had the following themes: Contacts between Middle Europe and the Mediterranean, Jewellery and Costume, Arms and Armour, and Cult and Sanctuary through the Ages. Contributions have been published in four volumes of Anodos - Studies of the Ancient World (1/2001, 3/2003, 4-5/2004-2005 and 6-7/2006-2007). Another conference of this kind was organized under the title Trade and Production through the Ages at Selcuk University in Konya (Turkey) in 2008, in co-operation with Selcuk University (our partner institution). The conference in 2010 and the publication of its proceedings have been financially supported by the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic (Project VEGA No. 1/0408/09) and by the voluntary association Pro Archaeologia Classica.

Editors Trnava, 25 November 2011

Anodos. Studies of the Ancient World 10/2010, 17-27.

Roman Figural Bronzes From Brigetio: Preliminary Notes

Dvid Bartus
Keywords: Figural Bronzes, Workshop, Brigetio, Dolichenum, Pannonia, XRF-analysis Abstract: More than 450 figural bronze objects which are now located in six different museums have been collected into a database for a forthcoming monograph on the Roman figural bronzes from Brigetio. This paper presents preliminary notes about the planned publication and shows some interesting and problematic examples from the material. Evidences of bronze-working in Brigetio will also be discussed, as well as the new results of the archaeometrical analysis made on the group of bronze statuettes from the sanctuary of Iuppiter Dolichenus. Introduction and brief history of research A comprehensive work on Roman figural bronzes from Hungary has not yet been achieved, the research focused mainly on publishing single objects or significant find-groups. The works of A. Hekler1, I. Paulovics2, A. Radnti3 and Z. Oroszln4 should be mentioned from the early research, later E. Thomas5, Zs. Bnki6, D. Gspr7 and V. Csermnyi8 studied the subject. The most important event in the Hungarian research was the 7th Conference on Ancient Bronzes, held in Szkesfehrvr at 1982, with an exposition catalogue and a conference volume9. The great importance of Brigetio was recognized already by the earlier research, due to the high quantity of the figural bronzes came from this site. We know about more than 450 objects, which is a very high number comparing with other sites in Pannonia or abroad. The most significant research in the first half of the 20th century could be connected with I. Paulovics, who published bronzes from private collections10, moreover, tried to identify a bronze workshop based on the finds from the excavation of the sanctuary of Iuppiter Dolichenus in Brigetio, carried out by . Milch at 189911. Despite of the rich find material and the achievements of the early research, comprehensive works on the bronzes from Brigetio do still not exist, we have mainly short publications of single objects12 or find-groups13. I have started my research in the frame of the Magyary Zoltn Postdoctoral Scholarship, in 2009 and 2010. The main aim of the work is preparing a monograph on the Roman figural bronzes from Brigetio, which could be the first title in a series of publications on Roman

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Hekler 1913. Paulovics 1932; 1935; 1942. Radnti 1968. Oroszln 1939. Thomas 1963; 1965; 1982. Bnki 1972; 1984; 1994. Gspr 1986. Csermnyi 1984. Thomas 1982; Fitz 1984. Paulovics 1942. Paulovics 1932; 1935. Sprincz 1961; Radnti 1968. Petnyi 1993.

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Bronzes from Hungary, following the structure of the earlier series published in Germany14, Switzerland15, Austria16 and Belgium17. The material The figural bronzes from Brigetio are now located in different museum collections18 (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest; Kuny Domokos Museum, Tata; Klapka Gyrgy Museum, Komrom; Danube Museum, Komrno; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; British Museum, London), although many of them were lost during the 20th century. Most of the lost objects can be identified in inventory books or old publications, however in most cases these records dont contain any photos or illustrations. Another problem of the material is the uncertain provenance, only a small amount of them have been found in excavations, even less in stratigraphically confirmed contexts. Brigetio had been considered as a rich archaeological site already at the 19th century and many of the notable private collectors acquired their own bronze collection of material from Brigetio. Later, the museums could obtain a lot of them, but a huge number of the objects were lost or sold in auctions19. The number of therefore lost bronze objects is ca. 150, mainly statuettes. Besides the activity of collectors, archaeological excavations have also been started as early as the second half of the 19th century, which produced some very important finds, principally the bronzes from the sanctuary of Iuppiter Dolichenus, excavated in 1899 by . Milch20. The modern, systematic excavations have been started in 1992 at the territory of the civil town, which also increased the number of figural bronzes found in Brigetio with some new examples from datable contexts21. Bronze-working in Brigetio We have no direct evidence of any workshops producing statuettes (except the case of the inscription of Romulianus artifex which will be discussed below), but some finds clearly show bronze-working activity in Brigetio. Several half-finished or waste products and clay moulds of fibulae have been published by . Bnis from the collection of the Hungarian National Museum22, and there are waste products of fibulae, harness and other small objects in the Kllay Collection (now in the Kuny Domokos Museum, Tata)23. According to . Bnis, these finds can be connected with the so-called Militrhandwerk of Brigetio, however the findspot of the objects is unknown. A half-finished fibula has been found recently at the excavation of the civil town of Brigetio, which indicates a workshop there or nearby24. Crucibles are also known from Brigetio, one with traces of bronze inside and molten vitreous material on the outer surface has been found in the castrum25, while an unused example is said to be found in the territory of the
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Menzel 1960; 1966; 1986. Leibundgut 1976; Kaufmann-Heinimann 1977; Leibundgut 1980; Kaufmann-Heinimann 1994. Fleischer 1967. Faider-Feytmans 1979. I would like to thank the help of dm Szab and Zsolt Mrv (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest), Jnos Lszl (Kuny Domokos Museum, Tata), Emese Szmad (Klapka Gyrgy Museum, Komrom), Marek Gere (Danube Museum, Komrno), Alfred Bernhard-Walcher and Georg Plattner (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) and Alex Reid (British Museum, London). See for example the Trau Collection, which originally contained about 50 statuettes from Brigetio, and was sold in Switzerland (Trau 1954-55). Milch 1901; Lng 1925; 1941. See for example the bust of a germanus, discussed below (Borhy and Szmad 2010, 250). Bnis 1986, 301-4, Abb. 1-2. Petnyi 1993, 61, Abb. 3; One of the objects, which belongs to a harness (Inv. No. K1838) is wrongly identified there as a mirror (Abb. 3: 6). Inv. No. 2009.001.11 (Klapka Gyrgy Museum, Komrom). Inv. No. 54.59.25 (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest).

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Fig. 1. Statuette of Iuppiter, said to be found in Brigetio. British Museum, London ( Trustees of the British Museum).

canabae26. Another unused crucible without any indications of the find circumstances is in the private collection of I. Bodor (Klapka Gyrgy Museum, Komrom)27. These unused crucibles could locate, at least theoretically, either pottery workshops where the crucibles were made, or bronze workshops where they had been planned to be used, but remained unused by some reason. Another evidence of the bronze working in Brigetio is a melting furnace, which was excavated in 1942 in the territory of the castrum, however, the statuette of Mercurius28 found next to the furnace was an imported object waiting for to be melted as scrap metal to produce new bronze objects. Local production and imported objects can also be separated through analysis of the style and quality of the objects. Although comprehensive conclusions cannot be drawn until finishing the analysis of the whole material from Brigetio, some preliminary observations should be mentioned. First of all, we have some bronzes which are certainly imported, based on the very high quality of the objects. For example, the famous statuette of the throned Iuppiter in the British Museum, said to be found in Brigetio29, is one of the masterpieces of Roman minor arts (Fig. 1), and the above-mentioned Mercurius is also an imported one as stated by E. Sprincz earlier30. Some bronzes could be assigned as local products because of the subject: maybe it is the case of the representations of germani. Although there is no direct evidence on the origin and place of production, Brigetio is one of the possibilities31. A bronze bust from Brigetio, now in the Hungarian National
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Inv. No. 60.4.22 (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest) Kis 2010, 19, Kat. 28, XIX. tbla 28, 12. kp. Sprincz 1961. Reg. no.: 1865,0103.36. Paulovics 1940a, 24, note 13. mentions that older workers of his excavation in Brigetio at 1926-27 still remembered and could describe the statuette, which had been acquired by the British Museum at 1865. However, the inventory books of the British Museum, as well as the earlier publications of the statuette (Walters 1899, No. 909; Zadoks 1938, 51.) indicate Hungary or Pannonia as the provenance of the object. Sprincz 1961, 260. Krierer 2002, 372.

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Fig. 2. Representation of Germani from Brigetio. 1 Bust of a man with nodus. Hungarian National Museum, Budapest; 2 Statuette of a bound prisoner. Kuny Domokos Museum, Tata; 3 Head of a man with nodus. Kuny Domokos Museum, Tata (Photos D. Bartus).

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Fig. 3. 1 Bronze bust representing a Germanic man with beard and nodus, found recently in Brigetio. Klapka Gyrgy Museum, Komrom; 2 Detail of the head (Photos D. Bartus).

Fig. 4. Statuettes from Brigetio representing Mars with patera. 1 Hungarian National Museum, Budapest; 2 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; 3 Differences of the posture of the statuettes in outline drawing; 4 Differences of the posture of the statuettes on photomontage (Photos and drawings D. Bartus)

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Museum, depicting a bearded man with the tipical nodus in the hair was well-known by the earlier research32 and two other Germanic representations: a statuette of a bound prisoner and a male head with nodus have been found in 1990 in the canabae (Fig. 2)33. A recent find from a cellar in the civil town also belongs to this group: it is a bust of a bearded man (Fig. 3), similar to the example in the Hungarian National Museum34. The bust has been found in a closed context with additional finds datable until the late Antonine and early Severian period35. Our next example is an uncommon type of the representation of Mars holding a patera. There are three statuettes from Brigetio of this type, almost completely identical in size and posture, with only minor differences (Fig. 4)36. The statuettes depicting the bearded god in helmet, cuirass and greaves, with a spear in the raised left and a patera in the lowered right hand. The iconography of Mars is diversified with several types and variations even among the bronze statuettes37, but the majority of them go back to the so-called Mars Ultor-type. The representation of Mars with patera in the right and spear in the left hand is uncommon not only in the Roman, but in the Greek art as well38. However, similar representations from the fifth to third centuries BC are known from Central Italy39, primarily the so-called Mars of Todi40, and there are a small number of bronze statuettes of Mars with patera from the Roman Imperial period41, but they are not similar to the above-mentioned examples from Brigetio. I have found thus far only two published statuettes from the same type: one from the Collection Grau with uncertain provenance42, and another one from the territory of Artois43. This uncommon group of statuettes surely needs further investigation, especially the pieces from Brigetio which could have been produced in the same, possibly local workshop. Romulianus artifex The most important evidence on a workshop producing bronze statuettes in Brigetio is the inscribed bronze base of Romulianus, which has been found during the excavation of the sanctuary of Iuppiter Dolichenus southwest from the legionary fortress, carried out by . Milch in 189944. The rectangular bronze base (Fig. 5), measures 17,3 x 13,8 x 7 cm, containes two inscriptions: on one side I(ovi) O(ptimo) M(aximo) D(olicheno) P(ublius) Ael(ius) Ver/[us (centurio?)

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Hekler 1909; Paulovics 1940b, 373; Jrdnyi-Paulovics 1945, 250-2; On the similar finds from Muov and some analogies see Krierer 2002. Petnyi 1993. Borhy and Szmad 2010, 250. Szrdi 2010, 25-7. Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Inv. No. 4.1933.1; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Inv. No. VI.2778 (LIMC II, s. v. Ares/Mars (E. Simon), 520, Nr. 113); Hollitzer Collection (Ladek 1891, 42-3, Nr. 3). LIMC II, s. v. Ares/Mars (E. Simon), 513-22, Nr. 25-139. LIMC II, s. v. Ares/Mars (E. Simon), 509; The LIMC gives only one example of Ares(?) holding a patera on a fifth century BC marble relief in Venice, from the Grimani Collection, but the identification of the two figures as Ares and Aphrodite is uncertain (LIMC II, s.v. Aphrodite (A. Delivorrias), 22, Nr. 142. = LIMC II, s.v. Ares (P. Bruneau), 483, No. 57). M. Robertson suggested that a figure on a fragment of a red-figure amphora by Oltos could be Ares with a lance in the left and a patera in the right (Robertson 1964-65, Fig. 67). LIMC II, s. v. Ares/Mars (E. Simon), 509, Nr. 8; 521, Nr. 115; Cederna 1951, 190, Fig. 7.4-5. LIMC II, s. v. Ares/Mars (E. Simon), 508-9, Nr. 1. with further reference. LIMC II, s. v. Ares/Mars (E. Simon), 520-1, Nr. 108-17. Reinach 1913, 109.2. Terninck 1880, pl. 34.10. The excavations and the finds from the sanctuary were first published in Milch 1901, later in Lng 1941; Hrig and Schwertheim 1987, 155-70, Nr. 236-61. Recently a hypothetical reconstrucion of the sanctuary was published by P. Ratimorsk and J. Minaroviech. Here should be mentioned that the reconstruction of the door of the sanctuary was based incorrectly on an upside-down image of the Lesbian kymation (Ratimorsk and Minaroviech 2010, Fig. 27).

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Fig. 5. Inscribed base from the Dolichenum (No. 1). Hungarian National Museum, Budapest (Photos D. Bartus).

leg(ionis)] I Ad(iutricis) P(iae) F(idelis) and on the other side Romulianus arti(fex) fec[i]t45. Since we have the name of a soldier from the nearby legionary fortress, and the bronze base (originally with a statuette) was placed in the local sanctuary of Dolichenus, it is obvious that Romulianus was a local craftsman who worked in a bronze-workshop in Brigetio, which produced figural bronzes as well. The bronze base of Romulianus can be dated between the middle of the second century (based on the name Aelius) and the reign of Maximinus Thrax (when the sanctuary of Iuppiter Dolichenus was destroyed)46, so we can assume that the workshop was active in the Severian period. However, the main problem is that none of the figural bronzes from Brigetio can be securely assign to that workshop or to Romulianus itself. There are a group of bronze statuettes from the Dolichenum, found together with the inscribed base, but nothing indicates any connection with it47. The statuettes do not belong to a sculptural group, nor the style and quality of them are comparable. Since the only known product from the workshop of Romulianus is a base without any connected statuettes, the only way to define other possible products of the workshop seemed to be an archaeometrical analysis. Data from the XRF analysis Although the results are usually not the most precise ones and the method has several disadvantages in the case of bronze statuettes, we chose the X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis due to the fairly low costs, the portability and the non-destructive nature of the method. The analysis was made by an Innov-x Systems Delta Standard handheld XRF analyzer. As recent studies show, XRF analysis seems to be appropriate on polished bronze surfaces for the approximate characterization of the alloying elements of the bulk material, too48. Therefore to avoid the misleading results caused by the corrosion of the surface, we removed the patina on the measured points of the objects. Since we could only polish the surface on a very small area, actually smaller than the detection area of the XRF analyzer, some 2-8% of impurities were mesasured from the surrounding corroded surface in every case. These are P (0,1-0,3%), Al (0,7-2,6%), and Si (1,3-6,5%) which had been incorporated from the soil to the corrosion layers49. Another difficulty was during the evaluation of the data, that all the bronze statuettes have traces of fire because the sanctuary of Iuppiter Dolichenus was burnt down, which can affect the composition of the alloy near the surface.
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Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Inv. No. 4.1933.94; Paulovics 1932; 1935, 21; AE 1937, 137; AE 1944, 129; AE 1981, 715; Tth 1981, 160-1, Nr. 54, Abb. 10; Hrig and Schwertheim 1987, 163-4, Nr. 253, Taf. XLIX; Thomas 2000, 245, note 17. Tth 1973, 109. Although I. Paulovics stated that the two statuettes of Victoria from the Dolichenum were surely made by Romulianus (Paulovics 1935, 26), we cannot accept this assumption because of the lack of evidence. Ortega-Feliu 2010, 1923. Climent-Font 1998, 230.

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Fig. 6. Statuettes from the Dolichenum, analyzed by XRF. Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. No. 2 Iuppiter; No. 3 Sol; No. 4 Luna; No. 5 Victoria; No. 6 Victoria; No. 7 Wreath; No. 8 Bull; No. 9 Eagle (Photos D. Bartus).

Eight statuettes from the Dolichenum (Fig. 6, No. 2-9) and the inscribed base of Romulianus (Fig. 5, No. 1) was analysed50, with the following results (Fig. 7). The most surpising is the very low copper and in some cases extremely high lead content of the statuettes. In five cases, we measured more than 30% of lead51. One can see that the copper-lead amounts are in relation
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The analysed objects are: No. 1: An inscribed bronze base, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest (HNM), Inv. No. 4.1933.104; No. 2: Iuppiter, HNM, Inv. No. 4.1933.98; No. 3: Sol, HNM, Inv. No. 4.1933.96; No. 4: Luna, HNM, Inv. No. 4.1933.95; No. 5: Victoria, HNM, Inv. No. 4.1933.99; No. 6: Victoria, HNM, Inv. No. 4.1933.100; No. 7: Wreath, HNM, Inv. No. 4.1933.105; No. 8: Bull, HNM, Inv. No. 4.1933.101; No. 9: Eagle, HNM, Inv. No. 4.1933.102. A recent study, based on bronze objects from the Louvre and the Vatican Museum shows that lead content increases from the first century BC to the third century AD, but the measured values are under 20% in all cases (Robbiola and Portier 2006, Fig. 2).

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Cu Base, lower part (No. 1) Iuppiter (No. 2) Sol (No. 3) Base, upper part (No. 1) Eagle (No. 9) Bull (No. 8) Base, object on top (No. 1) Wreath (No. 7) Luna (No. 4) Victoria (No. 5) Victoria (No. 6) Victoria (No. 6) 81,07 74,28 60,49 58,95 55,93 55,90 47,25 37,96 32,61 32,24 30,78 19,81

Pb 9,43 3,99 16,25 17,43 18,19 20,08 33,49 48,10 31,02 29,33 57,97 66,96

Sn 1,05 8,68 5,41 1,38 14,73 3,89 3,19 9,53 6,19 6,31 7,79 8,05

Zn 3,48 7,71 12,37 17,16 4,86 13,31 8,19 0,82 20,68 20,34 0,88 1,16

Fe 0,30 0,58 1,38 0,36 1,43 0,73 0,37 0,24 4,13 3,56 0,33 0,60

Ni ND 0,11 0,03 0,05 ND ND 0,07 ND 0,22 0,15 ND ND

Ag ND 1,39 ND ND ND ND ND ND ND ND ND ND

Sb ND 0,90 0,18 ND ND ND 0,27 ND ND ND ND ND

Al 1,12 0,85 0,96 1,27 1,65 2,58 1,82 1,29 1,33 1,22 0,78 1,22

Si 3,24 1,33 2,86 3,19 2,96 3,41 5,07 1,84 3,62 6,54 1,32 1,92

P 0,30 0,16 0,07 0,21 0,25 0,10 0,27 0,22 0,19 0,30 0,15 0,27

Fig. 7. Results of the XRF-analysis (ND = non-detectable).

Fig. 8. Relation of copper and lead in the analyzed alloys.

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with each other: as the copper content decreases, the lead content increases, so the sum of the two elements is between 75-90% in most cases (Fig. 8). The amount of lead is also very high comparing to other alloying elements, the tin and the zinc, as the ternary diagram clearly shows (Fig. 9). Lead usually produces segregates in copper alloys, which could explain the high percentages, but it is unlikely that the relatively big detection area of the XRF analyzer measured lead segregations in almost every case52. Other possible explanation can be the enrichment of lead in the surface caused by fire when the sanctuary was burnt down. As we can see, several uncertainties emerged during the Fig. 9. Ternary diagram showing the ratio of the lead, tin and zinc in the analyzed material. evaluation of the data, so the analysis is rather qualitative than quantitative. However, the analyzed statuettes have been found together, affected by the same environment, therefore can be compared with each other. First of all, there is no connection between the composition of the statuette base and any of the statuettes, which means that unfortunately no additional products of Romulianus can be identified. We measured the different parts of the base and even these produced various results, thus there is no special recipe of the alloy used by Romulianus. Another important result is the almost exactly same composition of one of the Victoria statuettes (No. 5) and the bust representing Luna (No. 4): the difference between the alloying elements is around 1%. Such a similar values cannot be explained by coincidence, especially as we analyzed the patina of both statuettes with similarly matching results53. The almost exactly same composition indicates that

Fig. 10. Differencies between the statuettes of Victoria No. 5 and No. 6 (Photos D. Bartus).

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The experiments published by I. Ortega-Feliu and her colleagues show that the relatively large detection area of the XRF is less dependant on the selection of measured points than the conventional PIXE method (Ortega-Feliu 2010, 1922-3). Cu: 55,6%/55,04%; Pb: 4,91%/4,98%; Sn: 1,96%/0,77%; Zn: 17,79%/18,93%; Fe: 3,22%/5,44%; Ni: 0,08%/0,1%; Ag: 0,01%/0,01%; Sb: 0,02%/0,03%; S: 12,92%/12,65%; P: 3,48%/2,06%.

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the statuettes were presumably made in the same not necessarily local workshop. Comparing the Victoria No. 5. with the other statuette of Victoria from the Dolichenum (No. 6), one can notice that the composition of the alloys are different. According to the very high amount of the lead, the Victoria No. 6 seems much more a lead statuette than a bronze one, which can also be seen visually by the greyish color of the object. The other statuette (No. 5) has half as much lead, but a high (20%) zinc content. We measured the Victoria No. 6 again on the opposite side, but the results were similar: very low copper, extremely high lead and almost no zinc content. It should be emphasized again, that the Victoria No. 6 is the worst preserved in the analyzed material, which may affect the results of the analysis, but we tried to measure the less damaged parts of the statuette. Despite of the different composition, the two statuettes were most likely made in the same workshop, probably with the help of the same mould, but the statuettes are not exact duplicates, contrary to opinions of the earlier research54. It is clearly visible despite of the bad condition of the Victoria No. 6, that the surface of its back is flat (Fig. 10), while on the back of the other statuette folds of the drapery can be seen. Although we can assume that these two statuettes of Victoria came from the same workshop as the above-mentioned Luna, unfortunately we cannot attribute them even now to Romulianus itself.
Dvid Bartus, PhD. Etvs Lornd University of Sciences Department of Classical and Roman Archaeology Mzeum krt. 4/B H-1088 Budapest bartusdavid@gmail.com

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