he Hunnic treasure of Nagyszeksos was found in 1926 in a vineyard near the village of Nagyszeksos just outside of Szeged, in the Hungarian County Csongrad (Fig. 1). With the exception of a few pieces — such as the cup and the fragmentary bowl which are now in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest — it is now stored in the Mora Ferenc Museum in Szeged. Up to now the hoard has never been on display and no technical description exists. Part of it was shown to the public on the occasion of exhibitions, for example, in the exhibition “Germanen, Hunnen und Awaren, Schatze der Volkerwanderungszeit” in Nuremberg in 1988 (Kurti 1988). The exhibition “Hun Gold” was organized in the Mora Ferenc Museum in Szeged in 2003 (Kurti 2003). Some of the pieces, in particular those of Alanic tradition, were on display in the exhibition “Attila und die Hunnen” in the Historisches Museum der Pfalz in Speyer in 2007 (Kurti 2007, fi g. p. 261). The most complete work on the hoard was published by Fettich (1953). The fi nds consist of 157 golden objects and fragments, many of which are decorated with inlays of gemstones — such as garnet, rock crystal, possibly amethyst — and of red glass. Among the fi nds there are also lumps of metal looking like molten silver. During the emergency excavation carried out by Ferenc Mora no human remains were identifi ed, but there was a large number of very precious and symbolic gifts. The complex of Nagyszeksos is most probably what is left from the offerings on a funerary pyre erected for the death of a king — who has been tentatively identifi ed with Uptar — or at least for the death of an important member of the royal family. Uptar/Oktar was, together with Rua/Ruga, the predecessor of Attila, and if this identifi cation is right, the fi nds have to be dated to around 430 CE (Bona 1991, pp. 46-60). Funerary pyres accompanied by ritual banquets were the special prerogative of males of the royal family or, at least, of males of very high rank, while socially important women were buried without the ritual
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