Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 23-24. (1994)
I. Arheologie
18 ADRIAN HUSAR 2 Bellagentus (Eraviscus), Busturio (Pannonius), Cotu Succesi (.cives Norica), T. Fabius Ibliomarus (domo Augusta Treverorum),... Macrinus (civi Trevero), L. lulius Ga. . . (civi Trevero), lubena (Eravisca), Ivonercus (Britto), Luonercus Molac(i)us (Britto), L. Samognatius Tertius (Trever). Such a geographic distribution has been supplemented by grouping names according to their place and function in the Roman onomastic system as follows: A) simple names (one element), Suadullus, Vellec(ius), etc. which were used for "foreigners" (peregrini) not having yet the Roman citizenship; B) the tria nomina, Roman nomen (gentilicium) + Celtic surname (cognomen), Ibliomarus, Magiona, Novantico, etc. The Celts from Dacia could have been more numerous than the onomastic showes it, as soon as the elements of material culture which were ascribed to it come from the rural zones where, as we know, the habit of rising up inscriptions is seldom met. The archeological researches emphasized at Casolt6 and Calbor, on the Transylvan Olt river, a settlement of norico-pannonian colonists, since the age of Trajan and Hadrian, and at Sighisoara7 - and, probably, in some other points of the Tárnává valley8 (Micäsasa, Medias)-, the existence of some pannono-illyrian communities. In the rural zones, the preserving of the funeral rites9 offer, sometime, proofs about the ethnical origin of these colonists. Thus, the tumular necropoleis from Casolt and Calbor suggest the norico-pannonian origin of those village communities, meanwhile the funeral inscriptions from Sighisoara indicate the presence of the Celto-lllyric colonists on the Tárnává valley. Besides the Celts immigrating from the nearly provinces (Pannonia, Noricum), well reprented in Dacia are also the Celto-Germans (cf. supra) from Augusta Treverorum.10 Unlike the Celtic names, the Germanic ones are extremely rarely met in the Carpatho-Danubian province. Aurelius Batavus11 and Procula Batava12 are, in this respect, singular examples. The diminution of fhe Germanic names might be owed to the fact that the auxiliary units enrolled at the Lower Rhine weren't immediatly transferred in Dacia , but 6 M. Macrea, I. Berciu, in SCIV, VI, no.3-4. 1955, p. 581 sqq; M. Macrea, in MCA, IV, 1957, p. 119 sqq; Idem, in MCA, VI, 1959, p. 407 sqq. 7 I. Mitrofan, in ActaMN. XVIII, 1981, p. 99 sqq. 8 D. Protase, in Marisia. X, 1980, p.56. 9 M. Bénabou, La résistance africaine á la romanisation, Paris, 1975, p.281. 10 Concerning the Trevers spesding into the Roman Empire, see J. Krier. Die Treverer ausserhalb ihrer Civitas, Trier, 1981, passim. 11 V. Wollmann, in ActaMN, VII, 1970, p. 167 sq. 12 M. Moga, l.l. Russu, Lapidarul Muzeului Banatului, 1975, p.73-75, no. 35.
