Roman antefixes from Brigetio in the collections of the Kuny Domokos Museum in Tata and the Klapka György Museum in Komárom

Dobosi, Linda (2025) Roman antefixes from Brigetio in the collections of the Kuny Domokos Museum in Tata and the Klapka György Museum in Komárom. ACTA ARCHAEOLOGICA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 76 (2). pp. 391-407. ISSN 0001-5210

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Abstract

Antefixes from Roman Pannonia have not been in the focus of Hungarian research, the artefacts in the collections of Hungarian museums are mostly unpublished, and in consequence, unknown. This paper discusses fifteen antefixes and two intact antefix moulds discovered in the collection of the Kuny Domokos Museum in Tata, as well as an antefix in the Klapka György Museum in Komárom, all found in Roman Brigetio (present-day Komárom/Szőny, Hungary). The pieces were meticulously studied and categorized into four types based on their appearance. As a result, three new types could be added to the already published two Brigetio antefix types, and a production place at the Kurucdomb legionary brick and tile workshop could be verified. Based on identical antefixes found at different archaeological sites, antefixes or their moulds were most probably transported from Brigetio to the Roman villa of Ravazd and to the early legionary fortress of Apulum, Dacia (present-day Alba Iulia, Romania) by the soldiers of the legio I Adiutrix and two other antefix types were shipped from Aquincum to Brigetio.

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