On the Free Dacians’ Toiletries: Combs Cover Image

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On the Free Dacians’ Toiletries: Combs

Author(s): Mircea Ignat
Subject(s): Archaeology, Cultural history, Ancient World
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Free Dacians; bone hair combs

Summary/Abstract: There are discussions on discoveries of bone combs from settlements and cemeteries of Free Dacians, in view of typology and chronology of these objects. Also presented is a bone comb, with an admirable execution, unique among the discoveries of Moldova, found in the settlement of Liteni (Suceava County). The comb is a type B, Group 1, using S. Thomas classification, and can be attributed to the first half of the III century AD. This comb is analogous to another piece discovered in the castrum of Gherla, from Dacia Porolissensis. Both pieces were probably made in the same workshop, placed somewhere outside the Empire, reflecting the relations between Dacia and Barbaricum.

  • Issue Year: 35/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 317-323
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English, Romanian