Importuri romane descoperite în necropola Sântana de Mures de la Lunca, jud. Galati. I. Recipiente
Roman imports discovered in the Sântana de Mures necropolis, Galati County. I. Pottery

Summary/Abstract: The Sântana de Mureş Culture necropolis was discovered near Lunca, on the very spot – judiciously named – Râpa cu Oale (Mug’s bluff) because of the falls from the upper bank. The research team conducted by I. T. Dragomir work in three campaigns during the years 1963, 1965 and 1967. Unfortunately the results of these investigations were not integral or properly publicized. After years, in 2001, the archaeological site monograph became available but without updating of information in conformations with the contemporary level of the researches not to tell that this book is mainly unknown. As for the Roman imports founded here they were barely mentioned without analogies or typological considerations, and some of them not even introduced in the category of imports. In these conditions we (re) discuss the roman imports founded in the funeral inventory of some graves, first the recipients and secondly – in another intervention – the ornament artefacts. There were attested three main categories of amphorae, and nota bene, all seems to be carrying wine. Two of them has oriental origin, but in the case of the type known as Rădulescu 7, Scorpan III-I, Kuzmanov II or Opaiţ C II-2 an Pontic origin cant be excluded. In the present level of research, the occidental amphora from inhumation grave no. 12 seems to be an exception in the eastern Barbaricum. Even in the Province Scythia this category of amphorae called Keay LII is very rarely meet and so some question marks are raised on the ways of this piece arrived at Lunca. A similar observation can be made in the case of the other solitary amphora, the one from the inhumation grave no. 2. It is well to tell that the eight amphorae we speak about are not the only one founded at Lunca but the one unbroken or partially damaged giving us the possibility to know their real shapes. Another vessels presented at Lunca are glass beakers. All three of them belong to the same category named Eggers 230, Ekholm IIBc, Kowalk, Eketorpsglas 3/11 or Straume I. Well known in the eastern Barbaricum – but in the Empire too –they are supposed to be worked locally in the Sântana de Mureş Culture as well. Finally a last vessel is in fact jugs that morphologically remember the silver jugs. It is well known in the Lower Danube areas both north and south in the fourth century. These are, very shortly the roman imports founded at Lunca – as far as the vessels are concern.

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