Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 31/1. (2011)
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About an Iron Vessel from Sarmizegetusa Regia 157 Iron vessels requiring high technological knowledge and skills are not common for the Dacian culture, only a few such recipients being registered until the present days, discovered in eight sites (Fig. 2). Unfortunately in most of the cases the fragmentary conservation of these vessels does not make possible a graphic reconstruction of their shapes (Glodariu-Iaroslavschi 1979, 120). Exception would be a vessel discovered in 1952 on the VIIIth terrace from Grädistea Muncelului (Daicoviciu Et Al. 1953, fig. 20-21), which seems to have the same shape as the one presented here (Fig. 3). The shapes and the dimensions of these vessels, as well as the lack of information about their contexts of discoveries do not make possible the definition of their utility. The observations of C. Daicoviciu about the presence of the vessel discovered in 1952 together with other iron objects - probably an iron hoard - connected to a blacksmiths workshop could be an evidence for the use of these vessels in some processes of metal crafts, or that it was a final product of the workshop with unknown destination and utility. Taking into consideration the analogies as well as the presumed place of discovery, the iron vessel from the collection of the museum from Deva can be dated starting with the beginning of the 2nd century AD. Fig.3. Iron vessel from Grädistea Muncelului (after Daicoviciu Et Al. 1953). APPENDIX List of the iron vessel discovered in Dacia 1. Costesti-Cetätuie, Hunedoara County (Glodariu-Iaroslavschi 1979,120, fig. 4/5). 2. Craiva-Piatra Craivii, Alba County (Berciu 1966, 52). 3. Grädistea de Munte-Grädistea Muncelului, Hunedoara County, it was found in the iron workshop investigated on the VIIIth terrace (Daicoviciu Et Al. 1953,169, fig. 20-21, Glodariu-Iaroslavschi 1979,120). 4. Grädistea de Munte-Grädistea Muncelului, Hunedoara County (Glodariu-Iaroslavschi 1979,120). 5. Grädistea de Munte-Fete/e Albe, Hunedoara County (Glodariu-Iaroslavschi 1979,120). 6. Luncani-Piafra Rosie, Hunedoara County (Daicoviciu Et Al. 1950, 146; Daicoviciu 1954, 66; Glodariu-Iaroslavschi 1979,120). 7. Popesti, Arges County (Glodariu-Iaroslavschi 1979,120). 8. Sihiu-Gusterita, Sibiu County (Horedt 1965). REFERENCES Berciu 1966 Daicoviciu 1954 Daicoviciu Et Al. 1950 Daicoviciu Et Al. 1953 Berciu, I., Cetatea dacicä de la Piatra Craivii, IN: Macrea, M.-Floca, O.Lupu, N.-Berciu, I., Cetäti dacice din sudul Transilvaniei, Bucuresti. Daicoviciu, C., Cetatea dacicä de la Piatra Rosie, Bucuresti. Daicoviciu, C.-Floca, O.-Ferenczi, I.-Duka, P.-Chirilä, E.-Manoliu, V.-Рор, I.-Rednic, M.-Rusu, M.-Teodoru, H., Studiul traiului dacilor in Muntii Orästiei. Rezultatul cercetärilor stiintifice fäcute de colectivul din Cluj, SCIV, 1,1,137-148. Daicoviciu, C.-Ferenczi, I.-Bodor, A.-Gostar, N.-Radu, D.-Dediu, M.Duka, P„ Santierul Grädistea Muncelului, SCIV, IV, 1-2,153-209.
