The present article attempts a classification of the Pergamian ware of the 2nd century BC and 1st century AD from North of Danube based on discoveries following systematic excavations or sondages, sherds either presented within the Romanian archaeological literature or not published. Thus, Pergamian ware could be identified only in 8 of the 27 investigated sites, more precisely in the localities of Brad and R ăcătău, Bacău county; Poiana, Galaţi county; Grădiștea and Brăiliţa, Brăila county; Bordușani and Piscul Crăsani, Ialomiţa county; Pietroasele - “Gruiu Dării”, Buzău county.
A new drinking vessel, called kantharos throughout the present article, was produced in the Geto-Dacian work shops starting with the second century B.C., following direct contacts with fine pottery from Asia Minor and the Pontus. A lot of ca. 1100 such items were discovered in the settlement from Brad (Bacău County) during the archaeological excavations performed between 1963 and 1984. In the site’s monograph V. Ursachi stated that Greek and then Roman shapes were imitated in the local work shops, but he made no explicit connection between the imitations and the originals presumed as models for the first. The comparative study of the Asia Minor and Pontus drinking vessels and those discovered in Brad with locally produced kantharoi reveals possible models and helps determine the start of local production.
The article presents glass items discovered over time during archaeological excavations performed on the Dacian site of Buridava and preserved in the collection of the “Aurelian Sacerdoţeanu” Vâlcea County Museum. The analyzed fragments were once part of glass vessels created in diff erent techniques: sagging, mold-blown, free-blown, cut-faceted, and splashed glass. Most identified shapes are ribbed bowls, but one could also mention one cylindrical beaker with inscription, a beaker with cut-faceted decoration, one “carchesium” fragment, two fragments from bottles handles, one skyphos (?) handle, and one fragment from a rython(?). Though the analyzed lot includes a relatively small number of items, it draws attention due to the variety of production techniques employed and the variety of identified shapes. Taking all these into consideration, one may say that the lot represents a group of glass items typical to the chronological interval between the end of the 1st century B.C. and the beginning of the 2nd century A.D.
The article presents a lot of 68 ceramic fragments in the National Museum of Antiquities patrimony which were apparently discovered at Zimnicea in the 1924 campaign. The identified forms, the production centres/production areas and their chronology open the possibility that Zimnicea was also inhabited in Roman times, sometime during the 2nd – 3rd centuries AD.
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