Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 32/2. (2012)
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120 К. В. Ötvös—К. Sidó Fig. 4. Functional categories. Comparing functional categories, ware types and different treatments of the surface (Appendix 2) indicate that most of the vessels, which wear red or black slip, belong to the fine ware or mid-ware categories. This is clear, because a cooking pot’s function would not allow it. Most of the fragments are unidentified, among the coarse wares the identifiable category are pots. Fine wares are the richest in functional categories, in the case of mid-wares most of the material is unidentifiable, only some pots and some bowls appear. *** In the study related to the Roman fort from Bräncovenesti, it is mentioned that the ceramic material arrived from the ceramic production center in Cristesti (Protase-Zrínyi 1994,57), and that the rural settlement is a community of potters (Husar-Man 1990, 22). The formal characteristics of the ceramic material from Glodeni show the same types, pointing to two possibilities for interpretation, the first one, that the pottery from Glodeni was also brought from Cristesti, the second, that - since these forms are spread in the whole Roman Dacia - Glodeni could be a local production center too. Three finds can be associated with pottery production, the two vitrified body fragments and the ceramic support, used in pottery production, as the analogies indicate.1 The ceramic material from Glodeni shows no great differences from the vessels coming from other Roman settlements in the neighboring area, but the above mentioned finds raise questions regarding Roman pottery production that needs further research. APPENDIX 1 Treatment of the surface and usage signs Surface treatment Usage signs Number of fragments without treatment without usage signs J48 without treatment crust 1 without treatment crust in the inside 1 without treatment perforated and repaired 1 without treatment secondary burning 5 without treatment vitrified 2 A similar ceramic support from North Wales was used for firing glazed pottery: http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/ en/rhagor/article/1953/, visited on 10th October 2012.
