Hungarian National Museum Research Articles

Age estimation of old carpets based on cystine and cysteic acid content

A method for the evaluation of the age of wool carpets and textiles was developed based on the age dependent alteration of amino acid composition of proteins. Samples of 23 wool carpets and textiles of known age, obtained from the Hungarian Museum of Industrial Arts and the Hungarian National Museum were analysed for amino acid content. Results were compared with data obtained for contemporary, untreated wool and wool carpet. The cysteic acid content of wool increases with age. The contemporary wool carpet contained 0.31 g of cysteic acid in 100 g of protein. Comparable figures were 1.87 g for a 550-year old carpet and 4.01–4.39 g for the 1600–1750 year old wool carpets. The cystine content decreased with age, the corresponding figures being 7.88, 3.12 and 1.19-0.97 g/100 g, respectively. Corresponding contents of methionine were 0.43, 0.21 and 0.20-0.00 g/ 100 g and for tyrosine 3.07, 2.11 and 0.20-0.00 g/100 g. Prediction equations were developed as linear regressions of the age of wool on cysteic acid, cystine and tyrosine contents. The 95% confidence intervals of estimates for two samples of unknown age were estimates plus or minus 30 and 38 years.

Funeral Archaeology and Avar Culture: Old Excavations Yield Serial Data

Cemeteries of the Avar Period (567-829) in Hungaryedited by I. Kovrig. Vol. I: E. Garam, I. Kovrig, J. Gy. Szabó, Gy. Török, Avar Finds in the Hungarian National Museum (Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1975) 368 pp. with 152 Figures and 37 Plates. Vol. II: A. Kiss, Avar Cemeteries in County Baranya (Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1977) 174 pp. with 71 Figures and 92 Plates. The volumes are published by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest V. Alkotmány utca 21, Budapest, Hungary, and distributed by Kultura, H-1389, Budapest, P.O.B. 149, Hungary.The Avars occupied the lands surrounding the Carpathian Basin (the old Roman province of Pannonia) from 567 A.C. until the early 9th century, but they are little known historically. To their literate Christian neighbors they figured only as dangerous enemies and Charlemagne destroyed them as such. Only within this century has their material culture been identified and archaeological research has set about trying to reconstruct their civilization. Hungarian scholars have advanced strong arguments that much information relating to the social structure as well as to the religious mentality is “coded” in the cemeteries. A new corpus of volumes, the first two of which are reviewed here, are intended to provide a systematic presentation of the excavation of thousands of tombs since the 1930s. This series promises to provide a quantitatively significant body of data on a given funeral horizon, as well as a coherent point of view on the material culture of the Avars, of great interest to students of the early Middle Ages in Europe in its interrelations with the world of the steppes.

The Evolution of the Hungarian National Museum Music Collection

The Evolution of the Hungarian National Museum Music Collection

The Hungarian National Museum, Budapest: “The History of Hungary from the Hungarian Conquest up to 1849”

The Hungarian National Museum, Budapest: “The History of Hungary from the Hungarian Conquest up to 1849”

Upper Biharian (Intermindel) Pebble-Industry Occupation Site in Western Hungary

Upper Biharian (Intermindel) Pebble-Industry Occupation Site in Western Hungary

An Experiment in Exhibition: "The Palaeolithic Age" in the Hungarian National Museum

An Experiment in Exhibition: "The Palaeolithic Age" in the Hungarian National Museum

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Notes on Types of Mosquitoes in the Hungarian National Museum (Diptera, Culicidae)

Through the kind cooperation of Dr. F. Mihalyi, of the Hungarian National Museum, I have been able to examine types of a number of heretofore unrecognized or dubiously identified mosquitoes described by F. V. Theobald (1905). In addition, types of three species described by F. W. Edwards (1922) were sent me by Dr. Mihalyi. This paper presents notes on the 28 nominal species and one variety described in the publications cited. Type material of two of the Theobald species was not available for study and is apparently lost.

A Study of Cirripedes in the Collection of the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest.

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of LondonVolume 117, Issue 2-3 p. 424-424 A Study of Cirripedes in the Collection of the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. Gabriel Kolosváry, Gabriel Kolosváry Budapest, National Museum.Search for more papers by this author Gabriel Kolosváry, Gabriel Kolosváry Budapest, National Museum.Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1947 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1947.tb00527.xCitations: 2AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume117, Issue2-3October 1947Pages 424-424 RelatedInformation

A Study of Cirripedes associated with Corals in the Collection of the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest.

Summary.1. New form: Creusia spinulosa forma tredecima, n. f.2. “Nomen novum”: Creusia spinulosa forma quarta, n. n.3. New localities for species:Singapore …Balanus quadrivittatus, Creusia spinulosa forma secunda, forma pallida, forma tredecima, Pyrgoma orbicellae and conjugatum.Bellevue Isl …Creusia spinulosa forma pallida.Philippines …Creusia spinulosa forma pallida.Wellington Isl …Creusia spinulosa forma pallida.Viti Isl …Creusia spinulosa forma pallida and Pyrgoma orbicellae.Sandwich Isl …Pyrgoma crenatum.4. New Cirripedes and coral associations: Balanus quadrivittatus…Merulina ampliata. Tetraclita costata…Montipora cf. foliosa. Creusia spinulosa forma secunda…Eumadrepora abrotanoides. Creusia spinulosa forma pallida…Pavona frondifera, Lobophyllia corymbosa, Stylophora pistillata and Acropora cuneata. Creusia spinulosa f. arcuata…Pavona crassa. Creusia spinulosa f. tredecima…Tridacophyllia lactuca. Pyrgoma crenatum…Favia speciosa.(Creusia, sp. juv…Pavona decussata.)(Pyrgoma, sp. indet …Coeloria rustica.)The above are founded from Balanus 4 species, from Tetraclita2 species, from Creusia 8, and from Pyrgoma7 species.

Telkes v. Hungarian National Museum [No. 11

Recognition — Of Governments — Effects of Non-Recognition.Jurisdictional Immunities — Effect of War — Analogy with Effects of Non-Recognition.States — Jurisdictional Immunities — National Museum — Whether Governmental Agency or Autonomous Body.War — Effects of — Effect on Jurisdictional Immunities of States — Analogy with Effects of Non-Recognition — Hungarian National Museum — Whether Autonomous Body or Governmental Agency.

Dacians on the Southern Bank of the Danube

A new military diploma, acquired by the Hungarian National Museum (pls. ii, iii, I), furnishes us with fresh evidence of Dacian settlements south of the Danube. We publish this new document with the kind permission of Professor Paulovics, Keeper of Roman Antiquities in that museum. Only the front leaf of the diploma has been discovered; the statement of the dealer, that it was found in the Danube near Nicopol in Bulgaria, is trustworthy. The tablet is slightly damaged on the right top of the front side, but this does not obscure the reading; it measures 94 by 118 millimetres and is 1·5 millimetres thick. It weighs 113·15 grammes.

An Unpublished Slovak Manuscript

Through the gracious courtesy of the Hungarian authorities I have been permitted to seek for Slavonic material in the Royal Hungarian National Museum. I was gratified to find that owing to a millennium of close contacts between the Magyar and the Slav, Budapest contains much interesting material. During this search I was fortunate enough to come upon the unpublished manuscript which is here reproduced. It was found by itself and was not a part of any collection. For purposes of identification I suggest calling it Slovak Manuscript M.M.C.

Fülöppite, a new Hungarian mineral of the plagionite-semseyite group

In the Autumn of 1928 Dr. Béla Fülöpp and Mr. G. Kupás sent for examination an unknown mineral, which had been found in no. III level on the main lode of the Kereszthegy mine at Nagybánya, comitat Szatmár [now Baia Mare, Satul-Mare, Romania]. The small crystals show a close resemblance to those of plagionite from Wolfsberg in the Harz Mountains, but the results of our detailed examination prove that we have here a new mineral. For this we propose the name Fülöppite in honour of Dr. B. Fülöpp, an enthusiastic collector of minerals and a generous patron of the Magyar Nemzeti Mfizeum (Hungarian National Museum).

Egyptian antiquities in the Hungarian National Museum of Budapest

Egyptian antiquities in the Hungarian National Museum of Budapest