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Acknowledgements
I would like to express my gratitude to Professor Tivadar Vida and Professor
Csanád Bálint, my research supervisors, for their patient guidance, invaluable
advices and enthusiastic encouragement of this research work. I would also
like to thank Dr. Éva Garam and Dr. Béla Miklós Szőke for their useful critiques
of the doctoral thesis upon which this book is based.
My grateful thanks are also extended to my colleagues at the Institute of
Archaeology of Research Center for Humanities of Hungarian Academy of
Sciences for assuring a motivating and inspiring working environment: László
Kovács, Miklós Takács, Éva Somlósi, Ádám Bollók, Ádám Bíró, Péter Langó,
András Patay-Horváth and Attila Türk. I am particularly grateful for the assis-
tance in graphical design provided by Zsolt Réti.
I am very much indepted to the colleagues working in various museums of
Hungary for their support during my museum researches: Zsuzsanna Hajnal
and Gergely Szenthe (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest); Margit Nagy
and Attila Horváth (Budapest History Museum); János József Szabó and Mária
Béres (Koszta József Museum, Szentes); Eszter Szőnyi, Péter Tomka, Szilvia
Bíró and Zoltán Pusztai (Xantus János Museum, Győr); Gábor Lőrinczy, Béla
Kürti, Csilla Balogh, Orsolya Lajkó (Móra Ferenc Museum, Szeged); János Ódor
(Wosinsky Mór Museum, Szekszárd), Gyula Fülöp and Frigyes Szücsi (Szent
István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár); Ibolya Nepper, Krisztián Antal Szilágyi
and Tünde Csutak (Déri Museum, Debrecen); Ágota Perémi (Laczkó Dezső
Múzeum, Veszprém); Eszter Istvánovits, Gábor Pintye and Attila Jakab ( Jósa
András Museum, Nyíregyháza); József Lukács (Nyíregyháza); Erika Wicker
(Katona József Museum, Kecskemét); Róbert Müller (Balaton Museum,
Keszthely); Gábor Kiss (Savaria Museum, Szombathely).
I am very grateful to my Slovakian colleagues for supporting me in my
collection data from various collections: Jozef Zábojník, Gabriel Fusek and
Martin Husár (AÚ SAV, Nitra); Katarina Tomčíková (Slovak National Museum,
Bratislava); Július Béreš, Mária Lamiová-Schmiedlová (AÚ SAV, Košice); Pavel
Paterka and Hajnalka Szabó (Danube Region Museum, Komárno). I would
also ike to express my gratitude to my Austrian colleagues who helped me in
Vienna: Falko Daim, Erik Szameit, Hajnalka Herold, Matthias Mehofer and
Norbert Hofer. Colleagues from Romania helped me in the study of archae-
ological heritage of Transylvania: Ioan Marian Ţiplic, Alpár Dobos, Coriolan
Horatiu Opreanu, Călin Cosma.
