Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 29/3. (2009)
Bordi Zsigmond Lóránd: Roman Age Discoveries from Tărnăveni (Mureş County)
132 BORDI ZSIGMOND LÓ RAND and Turda7. The second fragment is part of a vessel with right rim, covered with a black engobe, which was made from a fine textured clay body mixed with mica, grey fired. The decoration is a combination of the stamped floral and vegetal elements (Pl. 1/2). A vessel with a similar decoration was found at Turda8. 2. Common use pottery This category of pottery represents the great mass of the potsherds discovered. The majority was grey fired rough pottery, which was made from a clay body tempered with sand (almost 70% of the gathered material). The brown or brick-red fired pottery is rare; it appears just in the case of the bowls and plates. Pots (Pl. II) The majority of the fragments discovered (almost 65%) are part of this category. They were fast wheel made, tempered with sand and small pebbles. The firing process was developed in an anaerobe ambience, till the materials acquired a colour between light and dark grey. The decoration consists of parallel wavy lines or rope-and-pulleys on the upper part of the vessel. The majority of them are pots with bulging upper parts and short neck with everted rim. The edge has fluting for the lid (Pi. II/1, 3, 5-8). Similar vessels were found on both sides of the Carpathian Mountains in settlements like Romula9 in Oltenia or Criste^ti10 11 in Transylvania. The other, rare variant is the category of the bulging pots, with everted and thickened rim (Pl. II/2, 4). The fragments discovered are very similar to the ones found at Turda11, Criste§ti12 and Locusteni13. Storage vessels (Dolia) (Pl. III/1-4) We have only found four potsherds from this type of vessels; each fragment is part of a different pots. Two potsherds with horizontally extended rims (Pi. III/1, 2) were made from clay tempered with sand, fired in anaerobe ambiance till getting a grey colour. One of the vessels had a horizontal fluting on the region of its neck. The other two (Pl. III/3, 4) with tawny colour have horizontally extended rims, covered by two or three fluting lines. This decoration consists of vertically painted puce bands, beginning below the rim. Vessels like these were discovered in almost every Roman Age settlement (ex. Criste^ti14). Bowls (PI. IV/1-7) This category of vessels appears rarely in our collected archaeological materials. They were generally coloured between tawny and brick-red, and the surfaces were covered by puce toned bands. Fragments of two different types were discovered: potsherds of bowls with thickened rim (Pi. IV/1, 2, 5) and also of bowls with horizontally extended rim with fluting surface (Pl. IV/3, 4, 6, 7). The analogies of these types of vessels were also found in the military 7 Cätina§ 1982, 46, pl. V/79. 8 Cätina§ 1982, pl. V/72, 81. 9 Popilian 1975, pl. XXXIV/330. 10 Popescu 1956, fig. 112/13, 17, 18, 20; fig. 113/3, 7, 15, 19. 11 Cätina$ 1980, 95, fig. 9/2. 12 Popescu 1956, fig. 112/2, 14. 13 Popilian 1980, 141, pl. XVIII, M. 121. 14 Popescu 1956, fig. 106/9, 24, fig. 107/13.14
