Über Die Münzen Des Gräberfeldes Des Ungarischen Gemeinvolkes Aus Dem 10.–12. Jahrhundert Von Magyarhomorog-Kónyadomb

Kovács, L. (2007) Über Die Münzen Des Gräberfeldes Des Ungarischen Gemeinvolkes Aus Dem 10.–12. Jahrhundert Von Magyarhomorog-Kónyadomb. Acta Archaeologica, 58 (1). pp. 187-212. ISSN 0001-5210

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Abstract

On the coins in the cemetery of the Hungarian commoners at Magyarhomorog-Kónyadomb . The Magyarhomorog-Kónyadomb cemetery, in which 540 graves of the Hungarian commoners were unearthed from the 10 ^th –12 ^th centuries, was the richest one in the Carpathian Basin in regard of coins: a hundred and ninety-nine coins were uncovered in 145 graves, mostly of adults, from the period between (Saint) Stephen I (1000–1038) and Stephen II (1116–1131). The majority of the coins were intact; two of them were folded in half. Coins cut to pieces were placed in 48 graves: the fragments either belonged to the same item or they were independent segments. They appeared in three functions in the burial rite: in clusters as perforated coin ornaments (3 graves of children), as burial obols in the mouth or the hands 69 graves and as diverse coin grave-goods 98 graves. The distribution of the graves with coins shows a relative chronology in concentric stripes, where the oldest ones are in the centre. The village that used the cemetery has not yet been identified.

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