This paper discusses the ceramic assemblage discovered during the 2007 and 2018 campaigns in the on the route of street A, north of the Crypt Basilica, one of the few urban arteries revealed from the ...road network of late Roman Histria. The analyzed ceramic inventory, which is in a very advanced state of fragmentation, covers the period of the 1st – 6th centuries AD and includes almost all ceramic categories: transport, storage, table ware and cooking vessels. The statistical analysis shows the dominance of table wares, followed by transport vessels and cooking wares. In the case of the latter, this category includes both wheel or the handmade fragments. Each category is analyzed based on morphological and functional criteria, and the discussion extends to the issue of production centers. Considering the rich ceramic variety, especially the transport vessels and fine pottery, shows the commercial connections of Histria with large manufacturing centers, especially in the Aegean, Pontic and Micro-Asian, both during the early Roman period and in the Late Antiquity. During the 2nd and 3rd centuries the transport vessels arrived carrying wine and oil mainly from south Pontic and Aegean centers, while and the finer pottery has a Pontic and local origin, with few imports. By contrast, during Late Antiquity, Aegean amphorae dominate as the main imports in this category, represented especially by the well known types LRA 1 and LRA 2, in close connection with the annona militaris. There are still Pontic containers, such as the Kuzmanov XVI type of amphorae and a single Levantineamphora. Starting from the chronological and typological distribution of the ceramic material, the paper aims to answer questions related to the economic relations of History in the Roman era, the issues regarding a local and regional production and the changes that can be observed in the transition from the Principality to the Late Antiquity.
The chemical composition of 48 glass finds from Histria and Tomis, Romania, chiefly dated to the 1st-4th c. AD, was determined using prompt gamma activation analysis (PGAA) at the Budapest Neutron ...Centre (BNC). Most fragments have composition typical for the Roman naturally colored blue-green-yellow (RNCBGY) glass; Mn-colorless, Sb-colorless, and Sb-Mn colorless glass finds were evidenced, too. Several Foy
and Foy
glass fragments, as well as an HIMT and a plant ash glass sample, were identified in the studied assemblage. The archaeological evidence, the glass working waste items, and the samples with compositional patterns suggestive of recycling are proofs of the secondary glass working activities at Tomis during the Early Roman Empire period.
Le Bas-Danube est une plaine fluviale délimitée en son nord par la partie australe des Carpates et en son sud par le Grand Balkan. Théoriquement, on devrait donc être en mesure d’identifier dans la ...région un certain nombre de sites archéologiques situé dans l’une et l’autre chaine de montagnes. La multiplicité des sites monumentaux, surtout tardo-romains, en basse altitude ont toutefois incité les archéologues à se concentrer sur ces derniers, si bien que, en l’état actuel des connaissances, le perchement de sites fortifiés n’est pas une spécificité marquée du monde bas-danubien. Compte tenu de sa position géographie, cela est encore
La începutul anilor 1980, în cursul unor lucrări de sistematizare urbană desfășurate în perimetrul fostei străzi K. Marx (astăzi strada Revoluției din 22 Decembrie 1989), au fost identificate ...vestigiile unui edificiu de cult creștin. Intervenția antropică brutală, realizată cu mijloace mecanice, a condus la distrugerea cvasi-totală a zidurilor perimetrale de sud și de vest ale monumentului creștin, a pavimentului său realizat din cărămidă, dar și la afectarea parțială a criptei pentru relicve aflate sub nivelul sanctuarului. Cu toate acestea, planul și detaliile constructive privind cripta au putut fi reconstituite cu destulă acuratețe. Pe baza datelor disponibile (reunite în contribuția lui Rădulescu, Lungu din 1989, precum și a clișeelor păstrate în arhiva fotografică a MINA Constanța), autorii își propun să redeschidă dosarul arheologic al acestei descoperiri, rediscutând contextul arheologic, precum și flaconul-relicvar din sticlă descoperit intact în absidiola estică a criptei. Vor fi, de asemenea, avute în vedere detalii privind tehnica de construcție a criptei, decorația murală, cu privire specială asupra flaconului lenticular din sticlă, sigilat practic în absidiola estică a dispozitivului pentru conservarea moaștelor. Acest obiect, unic în peisajul religios de la Tomis, oferă informații suplimentare despre modul de venerare, accesibilitatea și contextul depunerii relicvelor în Scythia și oferă noi chei de lectură a acestor resturi sfinte în monumentele creștine din capitala religioasă a provinciei.
At the beginning of the 1980s, during the urban systematisation in the perimeter of the former K. Marx street (present-day Revoluției din 22 Decembrie 1989 street), the remains of a Christian cult building were found. The brutal anthropic intervention, using mechanical devices, led to the quasi-total destruction of the southern and western walls of the structure and of its brick-made pavement, as well as to the partial deterioration of the crypt for relics, which was located under the sanctuary. Even so, it was still possible to reconstitute the plan and the constructive details of the crypt quite accurately. Based on the available data (presented in Rădulescu, Lungu 1989, combined with the pictures kept in the archive of MINA Constanța), the authors aim to reopen the archaeological file of this find, in order to discuss again the archaeological context and the reliquary glass flask found intact in the small eastern apse of the crypt. Some details regarding the constructive technique used for the crypt, the mural decoration, and also the glass ampulla which was found practically sealed in the eastern apsidiole will also be analysed. This object, unique in the religious context of the city of Tomis, offers supplementary information regarding the veneration of relics, their accessibility as well as the context of their deposition in Scythia, allowing new ways of interpreting these sacred remains housed in the Christian monuments of the religious capital of the province.
The authors present a retrospective study on 84 cases with laryngo-pharyngo-esophageal stenosis treated in ENT Department of "Sf. Spiridon" Emergency Clinical Hospital from Iaşi, over 25 years, ...between 1980-2005 which were solved by surgical treatment. In order to solve the different types of the superior laryngeal stenosis and the hypo-pharynx, there have been used deltoid-pectoralis cutaneous flaps. In all these cases, the anatomical integrity of the recurrent nerve and his branches was preserved in order to obtain a good respiratory function.
În lumina datelor arheologice și a surselor scrise disponibile, Tomis, capitala administrativă și religioasă a provinciei Scythia, se dovedește un spațiu urban unde cultul relicvelor cunoaște o amplă ...dezvoltare de- a lungul întregii perioade a Antichității târzii. Pluralitatea edificiilor de cult creștine în cadrul urban al Tomisului și, în consecință, a dispozitivelor pentru venerarea relicvelor, constituie o realitate factuală ce permite o serie de concluzii privind manifestările devoționale și diversitatea soluțiilor de punere în valoare a acestor resturi sfinte. În panorama vieții religioase creștine din capitala Scythiei, relicvarul de marmură descoperit întâmplător în zona lacului Tăbăcăriei în a doua jumătate a secolului XX, constituie un unicum. Prezentarea autorilor merge în această direcție, discutând condițiile de descoperire ale piesei, iconografia și posibila sa încadrare cronologică.
From the perspective of the available archaeological and written sources, Tomis – the administrative and religious capital of the province of Scythia - represented an urban space where the cult of relics flourished during the Late Antiquity. The numerous Christian cult edifices existing in Tomis and, consequently the diversity of the relic-worshipping devices, created a context that allows us to draw a series of conclusions on the devotional manifestations and the diversity of solutions for exhibiting these holy remains. In the panorama of the Christian religious life in Scythia’s capital, the chance discovery of a marble reliquary near the Tăbăcăriei Lake during the second half of the 20th c., constitutes a fortunate exception. The authors’ presentation exploits this approach and discusses the discovery context, the iconography and the reliquary’s possible dating.
Burials, all inhumations, inside and in proximity to Paleochristian churches, represent an interesting manifestation of the spiritual life of Christian communities in Late Antiquity. By studying this ...phenomenon, one can obtain precious information concerning the topography of funerary areas in the 4th– 6th centuries AD, the funerary practices, as well as the successive changes in the perception of the ecclesiastic architectural context that included burial sites, whether isolated or organised into cemeteries. An analysis of graves and churches in relation to each other will further the understanding of the processes operating behind the transformation of the ancient polislurbs into a
Această contribuţie valorifică doar parţial rezultatele cercetărilor efectuate de echipa Institutului de Arheologie „ Vasile Pârvan” în perimetrul basilicii cu criptă în intervalul 2002– 2013. Au ...fost avute în vedere caracteristicile arhitecturale ale edificiului creştin, structurile arhitecturale preexistente (atât cele de epocă greacă, cât şi romană), locul monumentului creştin în urbanismul epocii romane târzii la Histria, modificările detectabile arheologic ce au survenit în configuraţia acestei arii intra murane a cetăţii romane târzii pe mai multe paliere cronologice.
The present contribution discusses only a part of the results obtained by the team of archaeologists from “ Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology in the area of the Basilica with a Crypt during the period of 2002– 2013. We took into consideration the architectural features of the Christian edifice, the pre-existing architectural structures (both of Greek and Roman ages), the place of the Christian monument in the urbanism of Late Roman age at Histria, the archaeologically noticeable modifications that occurred in the configuration of this intra muros area of the Late Roman city at various chronological moments.
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