Description
Book SynopsisThe Roman Cemetery at Nemesbőd belonged to a settlement or a villa which was located on the territory of the Roman colony of Savaria (present day Szombathey, Hungary) in Pannonia. The book deals with thirty-seven graves, which consisted of mainly cremation but also of some inhumation burials. Detailed analysis of grave goods (bronze vessels, pottery, glass, personal accessories, lamps etc.) provides a study of burial customs and their evolution. In addition, specialist reports on human remains and animal bone as well as on epigraphic material are presented.
Table of ContentsIntroduction;
The Szombathely – Vát project and the excavation of the Roman cemetery at Nemesbőd (Gábor Ilon) ;
Studies on the cemeteries of Savaria and its ‘territorium’ (Endre Norbert Fülöp, András Radics) ;
The site within the landscape (András Radics) ;
The finds (András Márton, Endre Norbert Fülöp and András Radics)
Pottery
Glass vessels
Bronze vessel
Oil lamps (lucernae)
Clothing accessories
Jewellery
Writing implements
Iron knives
The box
Coins
Carved bone objects
Nails, hooks
Indeterminable bronze and iron objects ;
The dating of the graves and related features (András Márton and Endre Norbert Fülöp) ;
Cemetery structure (András Márton and Endre Norbert Fülöp) ;
Burial customs (András Márton, Endre Norbert Fülöp and András Radics) ;
Terminology of cremation burials
Primary cremations
Secondary cremations
Terminology of inhumations
Defining the rituals of the excavated graves
Primary cremations
Secondary cremations
Inhumations
Features not identifiable as burials
Grave types
Cremation and the handling of cremated remains
Position of the corpse in the inhumations
The fill of the graves
Position of grave goods
Rites conducted on the grave goods
Custom of grave furnishing
Summary ;
Catalogue of graves, enclosure ditches and their finds (András Márton, Endre Norbert Fülöp and András Radics) ;
Interpretation of the graffiti (Andrea Barta) ;
Roman graves at the Szombathely – Vát sector of Main Road 86: results of the anthropological analysis (Gábor Tóth) ;
Materials and methods
Nemesbőd – Irtás-dűlő
Nemesbőd – Általúton kívül-dűlő
Vép – Surányi-patak nyugati oldala ;
Analysis of the archaeozoological material from the three sites at the Szombathely – Vát sector of Main Road 86 (Éva Ágnes Nyerges) ;
Description of the animal bone material
Assessment of the roman period animal bone material ;
Summary (Gábor Ilon, András Márton) ;
Résumé (Gábor Ilon and András Márton)
