Publisher's Synopsis
This monograph, based on the author's PhD dissertation, focuses on gravestones brought to light in and around Carnuntum, a Roman legionary fort in present-day Lower Austria. A fortress next to a crossing point on the Danube and next to the Amber Road that connected the Baltic with the Adriatic region, the site of Carnuntum and its surroundings yielded a huge number of gravestones and other burial monuments that serve as a valuable source of information on the Roman military activities as well as on life in the civilian town around the fort.
This piece of research explores, from both epigraphic and art historical points of view, almost 600 burial monuments unearthed from this region. This is the first endeavor to provide a comprehensive study of this extremely rich material. The results contribute to a better understanding of Roman military activities in the province of Pannonia as well as of how the Celtic population intermingled with and adapted culturally to the Roman Empire.
The book is in Hungarian with a German summary.
