Pottery Vessels with Graffiti Discovered in the Roman Fort from Orheiu Bistriţei

Authors

  • Radu Iustinian ZĂGREANU The Bistriţa-Năsăud Museum Complex. E-mail: raduzagreanu@gmail.com
  • Dan Augustin DEAC County Museum of History and Art, Zalău. E-mail: dandeac12@gmail.com
  • Angelica MOLDOVAN The Bistriţa-Năsăud Museum Complex. E-mail: angelique.moldovan@yahoo.com

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbhist.2020.1.02

Keywords:

Roman fort, potsherds, graffito.

Abstract

New invasive archaeological investigations from the inner areas of the Roman fort from Orheiu Bistriţei conducted in the summer of 2019 have yielded thirteen pottery vessels with graffiti. The inscribed texts discovered at Orheiu Bistriţei are, without exception, written in Latin and were incised after the pots were fired (post cocturam). Generally, these depict the name of the owner with one exception, which might depict a number.

Rezumat: Noi cercetări arheologice în interiorul castrului roman de la Orheiu Bistriţei din vara anului 2019 au dus la descoperirea a 13 fragmente ceramice cu graffiti. Textele scrise de la Orheiu Bistriţei sunt, fără excepţie, redactate în latină şi au fost incizate după ce vasele au fost arse (post cocturam). În general redau numele proprietarului vasului, cu o singură excepţie, care poate reprezenta un numeral.

Cuvinte cheie: castru roman, fragmente ceramice, graffito

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2020-06-30

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ZĂGREANU, R. I., DEAC, D. A., & MOLDOVAN, A. (2020). Pottery Vessels with Graffiti Discovered in the Roman Fort from Orheiu Bistriţei. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Historia, 65(1), 23–37. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbhist.2020.1.02

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