Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 25. (1996)
I. Arheologie
32 ADRIAN HUSAR, NICOLETA MAN As previously mentioned, the funerary monuments from Criste§ti offer signs for understanding the ethnic-territorial origin of the inhabitants. Thus, on several stelae and aediculae walls the Noric-Pannonian typical dress and jewelry are represented, as we could have seen. On the other hand, the figurative repertory of the sepulchral monuments illustrates, as previously mentioned, the cultural-artistic intercourse between the Noric elements and the Eravisco-Pannonian ones. Finally, the Dacian typical pottery could seems indicate the presence of a few natives, besides the colonists or in the close vicinity of the vicus. Therefore, this ethnical structure shows a mixtum compositum in to which the most firmly outlined elements are the Pannonian ones. The Roman settlement of Criste§ti knew the epoch’s typical social stratification. The colonists had diverse juridioal status -cives Romani or peregrini- and social positions, as well. Evidently, the greatest part were peregrini. The discussion about the population of the settlement of Criste§ti could not exclude the soldiers, as the majority of the informations offered by the epigraphic documentation62 are connected with them. All soldiers must be considered -from an economic point of view- as belonging to honestiores. To the same social category also belong the workshop owners and certain merchants. As concerning the lower echelons of society (the so-called humiliores the wider there were in fact -craftsmen, merchants, agricultural producers etc.- the less conclusively were revealed by the epigraphical sources. We seldom know their concrete occupation -Hermeros lapidarius is, in this respect, a singular example-, and the differences concerning the material level among them cannot, actually, be grasped. Lastly as regarding the liberti and servi -whose presence is beyond doubt- these are not epigraphically certified. A§EZAREA ROMANÄ RURALÄ DE LA CRISTE§TI (Rezumat) Pe maiul stäng al Mure§ului, in locul numit „Cetatea de pämänt”, se aflä urmele unei mari a§ezäri romane intinsä pe о suprafata de cäteva hectare. Pentru prima datä atestatä in 1870, cänd au fost mentionate urmele vizibile ale drumului roman, aceastä a§ezare a atras atentia cercetätorilor printr-un mare numär de descoperiri. 62IDR, III/4, 135, 138, 141.
