Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 29/3. (2009)
Bordi Zsigmond Lóránd: Roman Age Discoveries from Tărnăveni (Mureş County)
134 BORDI ZSIGMOND LÓ RAND is articulated and has a pair of concentric fluting on its surface. The pot has two band handles attached below the rim and stands below the shoulders. Dimensions: H = 17 cm; 0цр = 14 cm; ©max — 17 cm; ©bottom = 7 cm22. Similar pots were found at Locusteni23. 3. Two handled cup (Pl. VI/3) It was wheel-made, from homogeneous, well worked mica mixed clay. It has a biconical shape, with everted, right and rounded rim, and articulated bottom. The colour of the vessel is tawny, with some secondary firing black spots at the surface. It is decorated with two incised lines, one below the rim and the other on the belly. The two handles are attached below the rim and stand on the maximum diameter. Dimensions: H = 8,5 cm; 0np = 6 cm; 0max = 8 cm; ©bottom = 3,8 cm. A similar piece is known from the settlement of Romula24. The two-handled cup is relatively rare, compared to the discoveries of similar vessels with one handle. 4. Plate (PL 1/3) It is a relatively large and almost flat vessel, which was wheel-made, from homogeneous, well worked mica mixed clay. The upper part is oblique, the rim is extended horizontally to the outside, having fluting in its upper side. The bottom of the plate is ring-like. The exterior surface has an incised band. The plate was fired in aerobe ambient, till obtaining a tawny colour and its surface was covered with a puce coloured engobe. Dimensions: H = 8 cm; 0max = 36 cm; ©bottom =12 cm. This type is a rare variant of the Roman Plates, representing some analogies with the Plates discovered at Turda25 and Romula26. 5. Mortarium (PL VII/1) It is a relatively small vessel, but it presents all the characteristics of this type: wide everted rim, leaking beak and small pebbles in the inside surface. The vessel was made from sand and small pebbles mixed clay, and was fired in aerobe ambient, where it took a tawny nuance. In some parts on its surface there are secondary firing black spots. Dimensions: H = 11 cm; 0max = 33 cm; ©bottom = 12 cm. A very similar vessel with almost the same shape and dimensions was found in the Roman castrum of Bucium27. 6. Two handled jug (Pl. VI/5) It is a tubby shape clay vessel, with short neck and right, inside fluting rim. It was made from mica mixed clay and fired in aerobe ambiance where reached a muddy nuance. The two handles that were attached below the rim and to the shoulder, were broken down in antiquity. The jug wasn’t decorated. Dimensions: H = 22 cm; 0iip = 5 cm; 0max = 15,5 cm; ©bottom = 7 cm. This type of jug is well known in the Roman Dacia, similar discoveries were made especially in settlements like Criste^ti28 and Turda29. 22 In the published article appears incorrect: ©bottom = 70 cm. 23 Popilian 1980, 162, pl. XXXIX/3. 24 Babe? 1970, 183, fig. 9/c. 25 Cätina? 1980, 107, fig. 18/1. 26 Popilian 1975, pl. LXX/876. 27 Gudea 1972, 53, Taf. XXX/8. 28 Popescu 1956, fig. 97/3. 29 Cätina? 1980, 94, fig. 10/6.
