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  • Alba Iulia - Sanctuarul lui Liber Pater
  • Alba Iulia
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  • Romania
  • Alba County
  • Municipiul Alba Iulia

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Chronology

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    • In the spring of 1980, the surveys carried out on the south-west end of T2 in the border between Alba Iulia and the village of Pîclişa uncovered human bone remains and sherds. The first archaeological survey was carried out in the autumn of 2001. We uncovered a Hallstatt (Basarabi culture) sunken-floored building, a storage pit from the 5th century AD and 22 inhumation tombs from the 10th century. The grave goods include iron utensils, bronze, silver and glass ornaments; whirlpools and burned bronze cross relic. The finds date to the early Middle Ages. In the uncovered sections they were found in ten storage pits and 27 inhumation tombs. The artifacts recovered from the pits ensure the dating of the Roman period pit (2nd century). Other pits contain adobe bits from the masonry of the walls of some burned huts, and, more rarely, grey sherds, a glass whirlpool half, two pyramidal weights from a vertical weaving loom, fragmentary tegulae, one of which bore the stamp LEG XIII G, animal bones, charcoal bits and carbonized wheat caryopses. Pit 7 after its transformation into domestic pit served as a burial place for a six - seven year old child. The scarce pottery pleads in favour of dating the domestic pits to the early Middle Ages (5th century). The tombs have the pits dug down to 0.28 - 0.80 m deep. The skeletons are laid on the back, with the head to the west, and the feet to the east; the bones were turned upside down, and spread to various distances from the initial position. More often than not, the individuals laid deep down have some of the body parts disjointed and broken up. In the excavated area, we uncovered 27 tombs with infant, adult and mature individuals of both sexes. The grave goods include several ornaments, whirlpools, knife blades with gloving pin, bronze buttons and clay pots laid at the heads and feet of the dead. Two tombs contained a bronze cross each. The artifacts recovered from the tombs indicate that the burial complexes date to the 10th century, during the decades preceding the Hungarian penetration into the central part of Transylvania. They belong to a Christian peaceful sedentary population, that identifies with the Romanians from the last century of the 1st millennium, archaeologically attested and in other localities in the middle basin of the Mureş River.

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