The sensational find was made by archaeologists Szilvia Honti and Péter Gergely Németh at an excavation before construction along a stretch of Route 67. The urn, from the 5th century B.C., is an outstanding specimen from the time when the Huns wandered the region. It also offers, for the first time, the opportunity to learn more about the cauldron?s use in the Huns? funerary rights with a proper and systematic excavation. Similar finds have yielded little information about this.
The 22-kilogramme richly decorated copper cauldron was found at the bottom of a ditch, buried a metre underground. The 60-cenimetre-high vessel has been repaired in several places. The Huns used the cauldron for sacrifices when someone had died, as can be seen by the thick layer of soot around the edge.
The archaeologists have not yet found any other objects from the Hun era. However, an analysis of the earth from around the area where the cauldron was found, as well as of the cauldron?s form and the composition of its material should produce much information about the extraordinary object.
After the urn is restored, it will be put on public display at Kaposvár?s Rippl-Rónai museum.
Source: Múlt-kor
