### The 1st and 2nd cathedrals and king's head of Kalocsa
the first cathedral of Kalocsa - the beginning of the 11th century It is a simple building with one nave closing in a semi-circular apsis. In front of its facade another church was built, which had two towers. One of the richest collections of emblems - which belonged to prelates in the age of the Árpád dynasty - was found here in one of its bishopric tombs (a crosier head, a chalice, a patena, a ring, a chest cross, and pallium pins). Research relates these objects to Archbishop Saul (1192-1202), but Archbishop Astric is another possibility. the second cathedral of Kalocsa - the beginning of the 13th century This church with three naves and a trancept, the chancel of which could be walked around, was built after the model of French cathedrals. It was completed before 1230. Today only its ground-plan is known. Some of its carved capitals and the king's head with a crown - which decorates the main entrance of the cathedral - prove that masters working at constructions at Esztergom at the end of the 12th cetnury might have moved to Kalocsa. the king's head of Kalocsa - the beginning of the 13th cetnury It was found in 1912 in the course of the excavations of the cathedral of Kalocsa.It represents a man with his eyes deep in his head, who had a beard and moustache. On his head there is a an open crown with a narrow base. It is not clear whom it shows or what his position or origins were. In all probability it belonged to the decorations of the main entrance of the second cathedral of Kalocsa. The scuplture is in the possession of the Hungarian National Gallery, and it can be seen at the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest, as a loan object. KT