Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 31/1. (2011)
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226 R. ZÄGREANU—Zs. NYÁRÁDI large pot (Pl. 3/9-14; 4/1-24; 5/1-8). One fragment has an inscription engraved under the rim with a group of about 5 cm high three letters: ...TVR... (PI. 5/7). From the same site a few metal objects were also revealed. The leg of the 5.7 cm long trumpet brooch with the bow arching into the trumpet head was triangular in section with a frontal central ridge. It has a flared head with a ridge around its perimeter and a central loop on the reverse. The head curves inwards to form the bow of the brooch which is decorated by developed petal moulding at the centre of the bow. There are approximate six leaves at the top and bottom of the button which extend all around the bow. The loop on the reverse of the head would have contained the spring which along with the pin is missing. There is a small chip out of the top of the catch-plate. It is similar, but not the same with to the Cocis-21bla type (Coos 2004, 112), a new variant for Dacia, analogous to Jobst-VIa type (Jobst 1972, pi. 7/48-49), dated to the 2nd century AD. A small curved iron chisel dating from the 2nd-3th century AD was 5.8 cm long and 2.2 cm wide, it was sharpen at both ends, probably used for carpentry (Pi. 11/7). The similarly dated small 4 cm long curved bronze bar (PI. 11/8) maybe belonged to a shackle. 9. Márton Áron tér (Márton Áron square) In 1955, on the occasion of the excavations made for the sewer system on the south side of the local market, along with materials from other periods (Wietenberg culture, migration period, and Middle Ages) Roman pottery came to the surface (Ferenczi-Ferenczi 1958, 18), unfortunately lost later. In 2000 in the same place, this time on the northern side of the market a 1.50 to 2 m deep and 50-60 cm wide S-E oriented ditch was dug. The ceramic materials were rather sporadic and very mixed up, they were recovered in a private collection, where a fragments of a Roman bowl was identified (PI. 5/9). 10 * 10. Mihály udvar (Curtea lui Mihai) Mihály udvar (Michael’s Court) is a plot of land in the Beclean Str. Between 2000 and 2001, two buildings were built here, archaeological observations being made by V. Szász, pointing out a consistent deposit of the modern age materials, with a yellow silty layer underneath. Under this layer a black compact soil was observed, filled with pieces of coal and archaeological materials, among which some Roman coins and brooches, earrings fragments and bronze harness. The human bones found here along with inventory reveals the possibility of the existence of a Roman necropolis. A piece of a 1.3 cm long bronze brass wire (Pl. 11/9) with a knitting part and a curl with 3 mm diameter dating from the 2nd-3rd centuries AD was found broken. A fragment of a strongly profiled bronze brooch (PI. 11/10), with a length of 4 cm was made of two metal pieces, bears a disk knob, rendered on the upper part, the bow is curved an decorated with small triangles in the shape of‘wolf teeth’. The needle of the Cocis-8b2al type brooch (Cocis 2004, 65) is missing; analogies dated from the 1st c. to the third quarter of the 2nd century AD can be mentioned from Porolissum (Cocis 2004,175, no. 374). The bronze fragment of a carabiniera (?) (PI. 11/11) with a length of 1.8 cm, dated to the 2nd-3rd century AD was damaged at its lower part. From this place two coins were revealed: a silver antoninianus (Pl. 11/17). Avers: M OTACIL SEVERA AVG Bust, diadem, a crescent; Reverse: CONCORDIA AVGG, only some letters can be identified certainly Concordia seated to the left, in the left hand with a patera, and the Fertile Crescent in the right, in front an altar below. Bibliography: RIC IV/3, 83, no. 126 (Rome, not dated). The second was
