Tuhutum Memorial
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Historical Hungarian county:
Szilágy
GPS coordinates:
47.17994053, 23.0572139016
History
The monument was unveiled on 18 September 1902, at the same time as the statue of Wesselényi was unveiled, on the site bordered by the Palace of Justice, the prison building and the bed of the Pálvár stream.
The 3.5 - 4 m high, stepped obelisk was topped by a turul statue. The narrow frieze running along the upper edge of the obelisk depicted the arrival of the Hungarians, with the scene of Tuhutum dismounting and thrusting his spear into the ground as a sign of the conquest. Below the frieze there was an inscription in Old Hungarian runic script (rovásírás). At the base of the altar stone, there were gilded horse skulls resting on spears, the remains of a sacrifice to the god of war according to the ancient custom.
The statue disappeared one summer night in 1968. It was probably removed by Romanian nationalists just like most of the Hungarian statues in Transylvania. The monument was re-erected in 2008, in a more modest form next to the Reformed Church.
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