Judit Topál

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Judit Topál (born October 31, 1943 in Monor , Pest County ) is a Hungarian provincial Roman archaeologist .

Life

Topál finished school in 1962 at the General Blanka Teleki Girls' High School in Budapest and studied archeology and history from 1963 to 1968 at the Philosophical Faculty of the Loránd Eötvös University . During this time she was already involved in several excavations. In 1963 she took part in the investigation led by Edit B. Thomas (1923–1988) at the Matrica Limes Fort near Százhalombatta-Dunafüred; In 1964 she was busy with Bronze Age excavations in Csongrád-Felgyő under Gyula László; In 1965 she dug under István Méri in the crypt of the Catholic Church in Feldebrői and from 1967 to 1968 she helped with the excavations under István Bóna and Eszter B. Vágó in the Roman camp village and cemetery of the Intercisa-Dunaújváros fort on the former Danube Limes .

After graduating, Topál worked as an archaeologist at the Kossuth-Lajos Museum in Cegléd from 1968 to 1976 . At the same time she worked from 1973 to 1974 for the Ádám Béri Balogh Museum in Szekszárd . During this time, from 1974 to 1975, she attended advanced training courses in numismatics . In 1978 she received her doctorate with the internationally acclaimed dissertation The Southern Cemetery of Matrica (Der Südfriedhof von Matrica). The large-scale excavations carried out from 1971 to 1974 under the pressure of the ongoing construction work in this middle-imperial burial ground of the Százhalombatta-Dunafüred Fort were a great challenge for the prospective doctoral archaeologist. In the course of these excavations, she took over the further investigations at the fort bath of Matrica from the archaeologist Károly Sági (1919–1997). While the work in Százhalombatta-Dunafüred was still going on, Topál was commissioned to uncover what was then the largest Villa Rustica in Hungary in the Hungarian ethnographic open-air museum Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum (Skanzen) near Szentendre as part of a rescue excavation between 1973 and 1975. The archaeologist was supported in this work by István Dinnyés, Éva Kocztur, Klára Kővári and Charlotte Tettamanti. Almost at the same time, Topál and Éva Maróti were again commissioned to investigate a Roman necropolis, which was located south and west of the defensive wall of the Szentendre Fort. From 1976 to 1978 she worked as an archaeologist at the Historical Museum in Budapest, where she was director of the Roman collections from 1978 until her retirement in 2002.

Judit Topál was a member of the Hungarian Society for Archeology and Art History (Magyar Régészeti és Művészettörténeti Társulat) from 1969 to 1995 and of Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores , an international organization for the study of Roman ceramics, from 1982 to 1996 . In 1975 and 1985 she was honored with the Hungarian Socialist Culture Prize for her archaeological services.

Further excavations:

  • 1968 to 1969: Cegléd-Madarászhalom: treasure with Friesach pfennigs , church and cemetery from the Arpad period, medieval iron equipment depot
  • 1969 to 1970: Vác -Kavicsbánya: Investigations with Magdalena Hellebrandt and Charlotte Tettamanti at a Celtic and an Avar burial site.
  • 1970: Dunaújváros : excavations in the Roman camp village of Fort Intercisa.
  • 1971: Lincoln ( England ): Excavations on the city wall and in the camp village of the Roman Lindum Colonia .
  • 1981 to 1988: Conservation and restoration of the Villa Rustica Skanzen / Szentendre, which she had previously examined.
  • 1987: Káposztásmegyer: excavations with Margit Nagy in an imperial Sarmatian settlement.
  • 1978 to 1995 (with interruptions): excavations in the Roman camp village and in Aquincum cemeteries .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Aquincum burial grounds. In: Paula Zsidi : Research in Aquincum, 1969–2002. Budapesti Történeti Múzeum, Budapest 2003, ISBN 963-9340-23-5 , pp. 161-167.
  • Musical monuments from Aquincum. In: Paula Zsidi: Research in Aquincum, 1969–2002. Budapesti Történeti Múzeum, Budapest 2003, ISBN 963-9340-23-5 , pp. 254-258.
  • Egyptian and oriental gods and cults. In: Paula Zsidi: Research in Aquincum, 1969–2002. Budapesti Történeti Múzeum, Budapest 2003, ISBN 963-9340-23-5 , pp. 274-283.
  • Field Musicians in the Pannonian Army. In: International Symposium “Organ of Classical Antiquity: The Aquincum Organ AD 228. Report on the Colloquium of the Musicological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1. – 4. September 1994 in Budapest. “ Musikwissenschaftliche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Kleinblittersdorf, 1997, pp. 57–63.
  • with Beat Rütti and Rudolf Känel: Eternal darkness? In: Out of Rome. Aquincum / Augusta Raurica. Life in two Roman provincial cities. Basel - Budapest, 1997. pp. 292-319.
  • Glazed saucepan handles from Pannonia. In: Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis 25, 1995. pp. 101-113 and Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Acta 34, pp. 101-105.
  • The Roman villa of Szentendre. In: Balácai Közlemények. 3rd International Meeting on Roman Villas, 1994. pp. 321-335.
  • The import of the so-called Moselle wine ceramics in Pannonia. In: Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Acta 27/28, 1990, pp. 177-184.
  • with Margit Németh, Klára Póczy , Paula Zsidi: Friedhöfe In: Das Roman Budapest. New excavations and finds in Aquincum. Exhibition catalog. Kleines Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Lengerich 1986. pp. 149–155.
  • Toronymodellek a szentendrei római villából. (Tower models from the Roman villa in Szentendre). In: Studia comitatensia. Régészeti tanulmányok Pest Megyéből. No. 17. Pest Megyei Múzeumok Igazgatósága. Budapest 1985. pp. 303-325
  • Feliratos boroskészlet a szentendrei római villából. (Wine service with inscription from the Roman villa of Szentendre). In: Archaeologiai Értesítő 111, 1984, pp. 218–224.
  • A Bécsi uti római kori temetö I. (The Roman burial ground on Bécsi Street I.) In: Budapest Régiségei 25, 1984, pp. 291-320.
  • The early and middle imperial cemetery of Matrica (Százhalombatta-Dunafüred). In: Archaeologiai Értesitö 108, 1981, pp. 70-78.
  • The southern cemetery of Matrica (Százhalombatta-Dunafüred). Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1981 (= dissertation).
  • with Éva Maróti: Szentendre római kori temetője. The Roman burial ground of Szentendre. In: Studia Comitatensia 9, 1980, pp. 177ff.
  • Árpád-kori temető és templom Cegléd-Madarászhalmon. (A church and a burial ground from the Arpad period in Cegléd-Mádarászhalom). In: Studia Comitatensia 1, 1972, pp. 53-97.

literature

  • András Gervai, Zoltán Erős, Péter Hermann, Tamás Tóth, Andrea Balázs: MTI Ki kicsoda 2009. Több mint 6000 élő magyar személy életrajza. Budapest 2008, p. 1110.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b András Gervai, Zoltán Erős, Péter Hermann, Tamás Tóth, Andrea Balázs: MTI Ki KICSODA 2009. Több mint 6000 élő magyar személy életrajza. Budapest 2008, p. 1110.
  2. ↑ Review of: Judit Topál: The Southern Cemetery of Matrica (Százhalombatta-Dunafüred) In: Anzeiger für die Altertumswwissenschaft 42, 1989, p. 293.
  3. ^ Zsolt Visy: The Pannonian Limes in Hungary . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-8062-0488-8 , p. 92.

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personal data
SURNAME Topál, Judit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian Provincial Roman Archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Monor , Pest county