Artwork:
The cast bronze, diamond-shaped locking mount decorated with a trefoil palmette enclosed within a heart-shaped field was positioned in the middle of the tarsoly lid. The closing strap was threaded through a strap retainer device on the tarsoly lid, which fitted into the rectangular opening of the mount. The closing strap was adorned with two bronze mounts: one shaped like a leaf, another shaped like the head of a fox. The section of the closing strap above the tarsoly was gathered by a bronze ring. The section of the strap that was threaded through the strap retainer was adorned with ten small bronze mounts, each decorated with a double plaited ribbon design and a series of circles along the edge. The strap end was ornamented with the same design. On the basis of the well-known tarsoly “reconstruction research” the strap end certainly belonged to the locking unit of the tarsoly. Its closest parallel came to light from the Izsák burial. Its mounts positioned above the strap end are almost exact copies of those of Újfehértó

Usage:
The user of this tarsoly was undoubtedly the member of the military escort of the high dignitary whose rich grave was discovered not far from this site, near the earthen fort of Zemplén.


Inventory number:
Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Budapest - 10/1941. 16-20.

Literature:
László 1944, 436.; Erdélyi 1964, II. t.; Dienes 1964, 92-97.