Un opaiț glazurat de la Tibiscum
A glazed rushlight from Tibiscum

Summary/Abstract: A glazed clay rushlight was found in 2010, during the archaeological digs at Tibiscum, within the civil settlement.The lamp’s body is circularly shaped, with a singular ogival spout and volutes. It was moulded from a red semi-fine paste, uniformly burnt. The whole piece is covered with a green-brown glaze of a metallic gloss. The lamp has a round body with an oval spout with volutes on it and on the bordure, decorated with incised lines; two small orifices for ventilation are placed on the channel between the tank and the spout. The deep concave disk is limited from the bordure by two concentric incised circles, and decorated all around with a tape consisting in radial incised lines; the central part with the supplying orifice has no decoration. The broad bordure is decorated with a vegetal motive of leaves and grapes. The super-raised handle placed on the bordure, ring shaped probably was not preserved. The lamp’s tank is round shaped, with a flat bottom marked by two concentric circles; the spout link to the tank is marked by a nervure in relief decorate with incised lines.The archeological context where the rushlight was discovered dates in the second half of the 2nd century A. D.It is hard to say if that glazed rushlight found at Tibiscum is local or an imported manufactured article.Given its aspect in whole, that rushlight found at Tibiscum enriched the archeological repertoire of lightening objects and demonstrated once again both the diversity of pottery in Dacia and the close relations with the other provinces of the Roman empire.

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