Prea mult context sau deloc. Câteva spatheia târzii de pe frontiera dunăreană a provinciei Scythia (sec. VI – începutul sec. VII p.Chr.)
Too Much Context or not at all. Some Late Spatheia on the Danube Border of the Province of Scythia (6th – early 7th cent. AD)

Summary/Abstract: The topic of our article is an overview of the current status of research forthe whole province of Scythia regarding an unmistakeable small 6th century AD amphoratype. It is commonly known in the scientific literature as spatheion (σπάθειον) and currently appears in typologies as type Bonifay 33 / Berenice LRA 8a / Peacock - Williams51 / Kuzmanov VIII / Scorpan 1976 type 16 S. Such cylindrical small sized and low volume containers (about 1.5 l) arrived in Scythia with other products imported from the Exarchate of Africa during the last half century of Roman rule on the Lower Danube. On this occasion 5 new spatheia are introduced to the scientific literature, i.e. 3 from Capidava and another 2 from Axiopolis (?). The amphorae from Capidava have all secured contexts dating from the last two decades of the 6th - beginning of the 7th century, where as the twin spatheia kept in the collection of the Axiopolis Museum in Cernavoda yielded from accidental discoveries, even if they clearly belong to the same chronological horizon.

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