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Figurative Lamps Depicting Silenus Discovered in Roman Dacia
Ephemeris Napocensis, 2023The paper discusses the few figurative plastic lamps with the representation of the god Silenus discovered in the Roman province of Dacia starting from the analysis of a recently found specimen at Optatiana / Sutor (Sălaj County, Romania). From a morphological perspective, all these artefacts consist of a central clay statuette around which a series of
Sorin Cociș, Vlad-Andrei Lăzărescu
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2022
Chapter 7 analyses the coin hoards from the province of Dacia, between the reigns of Trajan and Aurelian. The hoard data show that the denarii disappeared gradually from circulation after the middle of the third century AD, and that hoards ending before the middle of the third century contain mainly coins of a single metal: gold, silver, or bronze ...
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Chapter 7 analyses the coin hoards from the province of Dacia, between the reigns of Trajan and Aurelian. The hoard data show that the denarii disappeared gradually from circulation after the middle of the third century AD, and that hoards ending before the middle of the third century contain mainly coins of a single metal: gold, silver, or bronze ...
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Sacralised spaces of Mithras in Roman Dacia
Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2021AbstractThe Roman cult of Mithras is one of the most well documented cults in Roman Dacia, having almost 300 archaeological finds (epigraphic and figurative sources) produced in less than 170 years during the 2ndand 3rdcenturies AD. Although the rich materiality of the cult attracted European attention already in the 18thcentury, sacralised spaces of ...
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Provincializing Roman Dacia: The Canadian–Romanian Apulum Roman Villa Project, 2018–2019
Mouseion, 2022The Apulum Roman Villa Project (ARVP) examines the “provincialization” and “de-provincialization” of Roman Dacia through the archaeological micro-history of a villa site at Oarda-Bulza, just outside one of the provincial capitals at Apulum. As one of the first villas in Dacia to be excavated scientifically and from multidisciplinary perspectives, the ...
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Funerary Venus cult in Roman Dacia
Annales d'Université "Valahia" Târgovişte. Section d'Archéologie et d'Histoire, 2012Le culte funéraire de Vénus dans la Dacie romaine. Neuf Venus représentations ont été découverts dans les tombes romaines de Dacia dans l'inventaire funéraire. Venus statues d'argile et de bronze ont joué un rôle apotropaïque dans la protection de l'âme après la mort.
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The Defensive System of Roman Dacia
Britannia, 1979The provisions in the will of Augustus concerning the boundaries of Roman empire came to be disregarded. The Rhine and the Danube, indeed, formed the Northern frontier of the Empire in continental Europe, and mountains and desert bordered the Empire on the east and the south and the Atlantic Ocean on the west.
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<p>The study of salt in Roman times has not benefitted from the attention paid to the exploitation of other subsoil resources like metals. This is the result of the scarcity not only of sources concerning the exploitation itself, but also of those that provide indirect information (like aspects of mining, trade or especially administration ...
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Communities of war : families of Roman Dacia
2019This paper examines the cultural information of epigraphic choices within military communities of Roman Dacia and engages with the private behaviors of members of the military and their families in the ancient world. A case study on votive inscriptions dedicated by members of the military supports this paper’s primary interest in dedicants of military ...
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