Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 31/1. (2011)
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176 Sz. P. PÁNCZÉL Based on the published data, in Porolissum (Gudea-Bajusz 1982, 25; Stoicovici 1982, 41; Stoicovici 1983, 196; Gudea 1989, 205-206; Pánczél-Lázok 2003, 200-201), Tibiscum (Benea 1983; Benea 1997; Pánczél-Lázok 2003,200-201; Benea 2004), Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Samizegetusa (Daicoviciu-Alicu 1984, 130-132; Alicu 1989, 11-13; Alicu Et Al. 1994, 71-72; Alicu 1995, 25-26; Pánczél-Lázok 2003, 200-201; Benea 2007, 55; Bäestean 2009), Romula (Tudor 1978, 108) and Apulum (see discussions below) we have enough evidence to take into consideration the presence of one or more glass workshops. Based on archaeometrical analyses (Stoicovici 1978) Dierna was mentioned as a possible site for ruby glass production but due to the presented dataset we have to link it rather to metalworking. We might have a similar situation in the case of Micia, where together with finds related to domestic and industrial activity, “slag and glass paste” was discovered (Petculescu Et Al. 2004, Hamat 2009,48), which might be vitrified clay from a kiln, but it can be evidence for glass-working as well. Roman Apulum (for the general overview of the site, see: Moga-Ciugudean 1995, 29-47; Ardevan 1998, 48-50; Diaconescu-Piso 1993, 67-81; Diaconescu 2004, 105-117; Bärbulescu 2005, 34), today known as Alba-Iulia, Alba County, Romania, became one of the largest conurbations north of the Danube during the early Severan period. This complex urban site included the fort of the XIII Gemina legion with the canabae, and two separate towns, the Colonia Aurelia Apulense and the Municipium Septimium Apulense. Fig. 2. Glass-working workshops from Apulum. The glass workshop2 from the area of the ctmafiae/legionary fort (Fig. 2/A) of Apulum has been identified through a discovery made at the demolition in 1898 of the ‘Báthory-church’. With this occasion a mould with a Greek inscription used for the production of square bottles (Pi. 1/1 — 2) was found in secondary position, in the central part of the former legionary fort, overlapped 2 C. Bälutä already mentioned in 1978 the hypothesis related to the existence of a local glass workshop in Apulum (Bälutä 1978,108-109; Bälutä 1979,199-200).
