Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 33/4. (2013)
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Churchyards in the Transylvanian Basin from the 11th to the first half of the 13th centuries 173 le. Strap ring ornamented with concentric circles: Alba Iulia-Roman Catholic Cathedral: Grave 15(1 piece-Br.). lf. Cast, closed, strap ring without ornaments: Moresti: Grave 16/1952 (1 piece-Br.). 2al-2a2. Octagonal ring with ‘rune inscription: Cluj-Mänästur: Grave 17 (1 piece-Ag), Grave 45 (1 piece-Ag). 3. Braided wire finger ring with hammered ends: Cluj-Mänästur: Grave 2 (1 piece-Ag), Grave 60 (1 piece-Ag), Grave 86 (1 piece-Ag), Grave 159 (1 piece-Ag), Däbäca-A. Tämas’s garden from a destroyed grave (1 piece-Br.), Dräuseni: Grave 5 (1 piece-Ag). 4. Braided open finger ring: Alba Iulia— Roman Catholic Cathedral (1 piece-Br., 6 pieces-Ag), Alba Iulia-Roman Bath stray finds (24 pieces-Br.), Cluj-Mänästur: Grave 157 (1 piece-Ag), Däbäca-Castle Area IV: Grave 68 (1 piece-Br.), Grave 146 (1 piece-Br.), Grave 282 (1 piece-Gilded Ag), Geoagiu de Jos: Grave 10 (1 piece-Br.), Moresti: Grave 6/1952 (1 piece-Br.), Streisängeorgiu: Grave 51, stray find (2 pieces-Ag and Br.). 5a. Cast, closed wire finger ring with semicircular cross-section: Däbäca-Castle Area IV: Grave 116 (1 piece-Br.). 5b. Cast, closed wire finger ring with lenticular cross-section: Alba Iulia-.Roman Catholic Cathedral (1 piece-Br.). 5c. Cast ring imitating braids, with semicircular cross-section: Däbäca-Castle Area IV: Grave 190.A (1 piece-Br.). 5d. Yellowish-brown glass ring with semicircular cross-section: Däbäca-Ci?sf/e Area IV - from the church’s trench (1 piece-glass). 6. Ornamented headed ring (by widening the head and the strap): Giläu: Grave 2 (1 piece-Br.). 7a. Bezel set ring ornamented with granulation: Cluj -Mänästur: Grave 10(1 piece-Ag). 7b. Bezel set ring ornamented with granulation and filigree: Dräuseni: Grave 8(1 piece-Br.), Grave 42.В (1 piece-Br.). 8. Pyramid shaped bezel set ring (decoration in forms of the letters M and W was incised on the pyramidal head solded on the strap): Dräuseni: Grave 3 (1 piece-Br.). 12.5.1. Statistical data on the rings (the material they were made of, their quantity in the graves) Some of the rings found in the graves in the Transylvanian Basin were made of silver (27), gilded silver (1), bronze (41) and glass (1). Unfortunately, there are 28 stray finds. They must have been furnishings in graves that were ransacked. However, the data concerning the positions of the rings are available only in few cases: La. On the fourth finger on the right hand: Däbäca-Cashe Area IV: Graves 68 and 114. l.b. On a finger’ on the right hand: Cluj- Mänästur Grave 75 and 157, Dräuseni: Graves 3 and 8, Jucu: Grave 53. Fig. 25. The quantity of finger rings types-subtypes
