Sarmatian graves discovered within the archaeological site of Mosnita Veche – "Dealul Salas" (Timis county, Romania)
Sarmatian graves discovered within the archaeological site of Mosnita Veche – "Dealul Salas" (Timis county, Romania)

Summary/Abstract: The four graves were identified during a rescue research determined by a ditch digging in the area of the archaeological site of Moșnița Veche–„Dealul Sălaș” (Timiș County) for underground utility. The unauthorized interventions there deranged some of the described graves. We might note that they had intervened since olden times on the grave No 3. Only the inferior part of the skeleton remained in the anatomical connection, the skull was identified on pelvis and the bones of the upper part, in the grave padding. We take this intervention after inhumation for graves plundering, a practice of the Sarmatians in the area of the Romanian Banat, northern Serbia, and eastern Hungary, largely documented since now. SN is the general orientation of the graves; the funerary furniture consists in ceramic vessels and metallic findings. Vessels consist in truncated cone-shaped bowls and pitchers in a fine and well worked paste, burnt by reduction, specific to that age. The pitcher with a trickling tube from Grave No 1 is the one to attract our attention and dates the grave to a period between the last third part of the 4th century AD and the first half of the 5th century AD. Grave No 3 might be dated to the same age as the fragment of an iron fibula certifies, belonging to the type of fibulae with the spring behind the body. The funeral furniture from Grave 2 and Grave 4 certify a largest dating of the two archaeological complexes, to the 3rd – 4 th c. AD.

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