Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 29/3. (2009)
Bordi Zsigmond Lóránd: Roman Age Discoveries from Tărnăveni (Mureş County)
136 BORDI ZSIGMOND LÓ RAN D Sestertius, RIC, III, 1746,161-180 A. C. Weight = 15.37 g; 0 = 28.4 mm. Bronze; weakly preserved. 4. Av. DIVA FAVSTINA Draped bust to right. Rv. AVGVSTA, S-C. Vesta standing to left sacrificing from patera over altar and holding Palladium Sestertius, RIC, III, 1126, 141 A. C. Weight = 22.7 g; 0 = 29.8 mm. Bronze; well preserved. The first and fourth pieces were found in the tilled soil on the point “Pe rät” in year 1995, while the pieces nr. 2 and 3 were found earlier in a garden owned by Pál lózsef, situated in a foothill, almost 1 km westward from this point (fig. 1/4). Discovered at the surface in relatively small area, these coins prove an intense monetary circulation in antiquity. In conclusion, the archaeological materials found in 1994-1995 and the earlier discoveries prove the existence of the Roman settlement in the territory of the town Tärnäveni. Based on these discoveries finally we could locate its place. The distance of the two extreme points from where archaeological materials were gathered (almost 500 m), as well as the relatively great wide of the stretch (almost 120 m) not exclude the existence of a Roman villa (villa rustica) in this area. It is very hard to delimit the Roman Age habitation, because in present days this place is a residential area and the railway embankment renders the researches impossible. We consider anyway that in Tärnäveni in the Roman Age there existed a settlement, a vicus or a villa rustica, having almost 6 hectares in surface. It was situated on the hypothetical ancient road which linked antique Apulum and the castrum of Säräteni in the Valley of Tárnává Mica River. Babe?1970 Cätina? 1980 Cätina? 1982 CIL Gudea 1972 Gudea 1980 Lazar 1995 Popescu 1956 Popilian 1975 Popilian 1980 BIBLIOGRAPHY Babe?, M., Zu den Bestatungsarten im nördlichen Flachgräberfeld von Romula. Ein Beitrag zur Grabtypologie des römischen Daziens, Dacia NS, XIV, 167-207. Cätina?, A., Ceramica romanä de la Potaissa - str. Cheii, Potaissa, II, 81-114. Cätina?, A„ Ceramica ?tampilatä de la Potaissa, Potaissa, III, 41-51. Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Berlin 1873 sqq. Gudea, N., Tonware. In: Das Römerlager von Bucium. Beiträge zur Untersuchung des Limes der Dacia Porolisensis. Cluj. Gudea, N., Vase ceramice ?tampilate de la Porolissum, Acta Musei Porolissensis, IV, 105-190. Lázár, V., Repertoriul arheologic aljudetului Mure$, Tg. Mure?. Popescu, D., Cercetäri arheologice in Transilvania, Materiale §i Cercetäri Arheologice, 11,41-250. Popilian, Gh., Ceramica romanä in Oltenia, Craiova. Popilian, Gh., Necropola romanä de la Locusteni, Craiova.
