Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 29/3. (2009)

Bordi Zsigmond Lóránd: Roman Age Discoveries from Tărnăveni (Mureş County)

Roman Age Discoveries from Tärnäveni (Mure$ County)

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7. Bowls (Pl. VII/2-4)

Fragments of three vessels were discovered, which can be classified in two categories: Variant I is a vessel made from homogeneous mica mixed clay, fired in aerobe ambiance, where it took a brick-red colour. The inside and outside surfaces were covered by a puce engobe in 2 cm wide in the region of its rim. This bowl is the flattest form, with everted, flat and fluting rim (Pl. VII/2). Similar bowls were found at Criste§ti30 and Turda31.

Variant II is represented by two fragments from hemispheric shape bowls, with right, thickened rim. They are covered with a dark-brown engobe on the inside and brick-red engobe in the outside (Pl. VII/3, 4). Analogies for this type of bowls were found in almost all settlements of the Roman Dacia.

We have to mention some fragments of a small pot, made from sand mixed clay, and fired grey, with bulging shoulder and fluting everted rim (Pl. VI/2), as well as the fragments of a lid with flat, cylindrical handle (Pl. III/7), which was burnt after being broken.

III. During the excavations for the installation of the natural gas pipe near the railway cross in Eminescu Street (fig. 1/3), beside of a great number of atypical wheel-made ceramic fragments, a fragment of a Roman Age dish appeared similar to the dishes found in the “Pe rät” site (Pl. V/7).

Monetary founds

The spectre of the Roman Age finds from Tärnäveni is completed with some monetary pieces:

1. Av. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS.

Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right.

Rv. COS III P P, S C

Hadrian on horseback prancing right, holding spear in the right hand.

As, RIC, II, 717, Roma; 132-134 A. C.

Weight = 13.10 g; 0 = 26.4 mm.

Bronze; well preserved.

2. Av. IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG.

Laureate head to right, slight drapery on far shoulder.

Rv. PONT MAX TR POT COS III, S C.

Genius standing right, foot on globe, holding sceptre and cornucopia.

As, RIC, II, 574, Roma; 119 A. C.

Weight = 8.20 g; 0 = 25.5 mm.

Bronze; well preserved.

3. Av. LVCILLA AVGVSTA.

Draped bust of the empress to right.

Rv. IVNO, S C.

Juno seated to left holding patera and sceptre.

30 Popescu 1956, tig. 103/11, 12.

31 Cätina? 1980, 102, fig. 15/3.