AQUINCUM

Ezt követően, valószínűleg a 4. században,
a felhagyott temető számos
síremlékét, felszíni kőépítményét viszszabontották,
és kőanyagát elszállították.
A legkésőbbi lelet, Valentinianus császár
follisa, már szórványleletként került elő az
1. szonda bolygatott felső rétegéből.
Az Aquincumi Híd által érintett területen
a szondázások 2005-ben várhatóan
tovább folytatódnak.
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Lassányi Gábor
ERDÉLYI 1974 – Erdélyi G.: A római
kőfaragás és kőszobrászat Magyar or szágon.
(Roman stone carving and stone
statuary in Hungary.) Budapest, 1974
KUZSINSZKY 1934 – Kuzsinszky B.:
Aquincum. Ausgrabungen und Funde.
Budapest 1934.
NAGY L. 1942 – Nagy L.: Temetők és
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története. Szerk: Szendy K. Budapest
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TOPÁL 2003 – Topál J.: Die Gräberfelder
von Aquincum. In: Forschungen in Aquincum
1969–2002. Szerk: Zsidi Paula,
Budapest, 2003, 161–167.
ZSIDI 2002 – Zsidi P.: Aquincum polgárvárosa.
Budapest, 2002.
from the cemetery continued farther to
the west from the investigated territory.
The earliest fi nd from the excavation
was a small Celtic bronze coin which
came from one of the late layers of test
trench no. 5. No other characteristic
Celtic material was found. A number of
sunken features were found in test cuttings
nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5 from before the
burials. They may belong to post-structure
buildings (from the AD 1 st century?). The
fi rst graves were dug after these features
had been abandoned and fi lled up. Most
of these graves had an east–west orientation.
The earliest uncovered graves came
from the late Flavian period according to
earlier publications, while the cremation
burials we have unearthed can rather be
dated from the AD 2 nd century since a
number of graves contained Hadrian’s
bronze coins. The grave gardens were reconstructed
in the 2 nd century and there
were also burials from the beginning of
the AD 3 rd century, especially in the eastern
part of the cemetery.
Numerous funeral sepulchres and
overground stone constructions from the
abandoned cemetery were pulled down
in the AD 4 th century and the stones
were transported away. The latest fi nd is
Emperor Valentinian’s follis, which was
found as a scattered fi nd in the disturbed
upper layer of test cutting no. 1. Investigations
in the area of the cemetery and on
the territory to be occupied by the Aquincum
Bridge will probably be carried on in
2005.
Gábor Lassányi