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Old August 14th, 2007 #1
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Default The Grave Of An Alan Prince

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During the summer of 1967 in Tolna county’s township of Regöly, at the north-western part of a hill, called „Pénzesdomb” (lit.: „Money-hill”) at the junction of the Kapos and Koppány rivers during sand-mining operations a very richly appointed female grave was found by the workers of a local cooperative at a depth of 150-160 centimeters. [...] The find is preserved at the Balogh Ádám Museum in Szekszárd.
[...] The Regöly find’s burial may be placed into the first quarter of the 5th century AD. based upon the objects in the grave, the analysis of the entire content of the goods and their comparison with related finds. The water pitchers with hollow handles have their parallel in the Tiszalök-Rázompuszta and the Wien-Leopoldau find and they point to the fifth century also as does the Lébény pitcher’s decoration which can be considered as related. The late Roman glass cup may be dated to the last third of the fourth and the first quarter of the fifth century, although it cannot be considered a good chronological base.
It is difficult to make a decision concerning the find’s ethnicity. The fibulae, buckles, bracelets are not reliable in establishing ethnicity. The ware of the Southern Russian workshops may be present in Germanic and Alan graves, but the compartmental technique of the gold jewelry appear in the finds which are believed to be of Hunnic origins; we refer here first of all to the Szeged-Nagyszéksós royal grave’s fine goldwork in the Hungarian collection. [...]
Rostovtzteff calls the Untersiebenbrunn and Airian finds of the related types Sarmatian (Alan) and he leans toward this opinion concerning the Carthaginian find. The golden sequences weigh heavily in his deductions. Concerning the Carthaginian find Alföldi does not exclude the Alan origins either. Mitscha-Märcheim believes the Untersiebenbrunn graves belonged to the Goths or Heruls. Salin and France Lanord established two hypotheses concerning the establishment of Airan find’s ethnicity. According to the first Sarmatian (Alan) invasion of 407 who arrived in France one of the graves belonged to the wife of a Sarmatian nobleman, the latter believes that the objects arrived through commerce from the Pontic regions to Normandy. Although their opinion is careful they still find the first hypothesis the one that can be better validated and supported with historical facts. Concerning these material Kuznyecov and Pudovin Soviet researchers support the Alan origin also.
Concerning the Regöly-Pénzesdomb find we also place the Alan ethnicity of the female’s remnants to the forefront through establishing the South Russian origin of the majority of the gravegoods — emphasizing especially the gold dress decorations — and keeping in mind the connections with the related finds and the time of the burial. Narrowing the subject further we raise the possibility that the gold bedecked female belonged to the upper class of that Alan group, which was given permission by Stilicho to settle in Valeria, after the Eastern-Goth — Alan — Hun group was dispersed in 399 and which was originally settled there in 379 AD. One can still validate the presence of the Gens Alanorum in Valeria at the end of first quarter of the fifth century.
The center of the Valeria Province was the center of the present Tolna county. [Italics by the Ed.]

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