A RÓMAIAKRA VÁRVA

Two terracotta statues in the collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts and unpublished until now are orignally from the Black Sea site of Kallatis, now Mangalia. A detailed discussion of the pieces shows that they are datable from the second half of the 2nd century B.C. to the first quarter of the 1st. After a summary of the history of terracotta production in the area from its beginnings in the 4th century, the article shows that the local production flowered in the century and a half preceding final integration into the Roman Empire, an act completed by a treaty preserved in an inscription dated to the mid first century B.C., and was one of the most important ways in which the Greek and non-Greek populations of the place were able to square their differences. Publication of a terracotta head in the collection of the Antiquities Department of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, and discussion of its place in the art of the Samnites. Similarity of the piece to votives found in the sanctuary of Schiavi d’Abruzzo. In connection with the latter, remarks on the importance for the Italic peoples of sanctuaries located outside settlement-areas, also notes on a few important characteristics of Samnite art and the disappearance of the Samnite culture after the Roman conquest.