Recensiones

Recently has been released within the publication seires of the Budapest History Museum, Aquincum Nostrum I.3, the work of three distinguished reserchers, which is a synthesis about the macellum in the Aquincum Civil Town, based on the old excavations, that took place here between 1882 and 1965.There were publications, which already discussed the different aspects of this building, but this time the authors worked as a team of specialists to sum up all the information about previous researches and of those finds, which were unpublished untill now.The authors have considerable experience with materials from this site, as they are archaeologists of the Aquincum Museum.Orsolya Láng is a researcher of the Aquincum Civil Town, and the presented work is mainly based on her MA thesis written in 2001.Péter Vámos is a specialist of local pottery production and generally of roman pottery of Aquincum.Alexandra Nagy is also a pottery specialist, her field of interest covers the range of Pannonian grey wares and stamped pots.It is necessary to mention the contribution of Anna Biller, who wrote chapter number 7.4 about archaeozoological finds.The topic seems to be a very obvious choice, since the market building (macellum) is inbetween the most significant buildings in the centre of the Civil Town of Aquincum.Nevertheless the results of those excavations, which took place here, were not comprehensively published, only preliminary reports or short artickles appeared.The need for a synthesis for this site urged the authors to re-evaluate publications, to search for manuscripts from bequests, to revise the available old excavation documentations, and to investigate the finds.Chapter 2,3 and 4 of this book relates those more than 130 years of archaeological researches in the Aquincum Civil Town's macellum.The row of the so-called 'old' excavations starts with the systematic excavations led by Bálint Kuzsinszky between 1882 and 1884

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