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Pottery Vessels with graffiti Discovered in the Fort of Ala I Batavorum in Dacia

Publication date: 17.05.2024

ELECTRUM, 2024, Volume 31, pp. 127-141

https://doi.org/10.4467/20800909EL.24.010.19160

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Rada Varga
Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
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Alexander Rubel
Archaeology Institute of the Romanian Academy, Iași
, Romania
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George Bounegru
National Union Museum, Alba Iulia
, Romania
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Pottery Vessels with graffiti Discovered in the Fort of Ala I Batavorum in Dacia

Abstract

This paper presents graffiti discovered on a few plates discovered in a barrack from the fort of ala I Batavorum milliaria in Dacia. Typical for the Batavian troops, the onomastics is Latin and Greek. The instrumenta prove that the soldiers scribbled their names on every-day use vessels and offer us a glimpse of the very men that lived there together.

Acknowledgements

The authors want to express their gratitude to Peter Davidson (Oxford) for a revision of the text. We are also indebted to Markus Scholz (Frankfurt) and Dan Dana (Lyon), who offered useful suggestions and bibliographical hints. As well, we would like to thank Dan Deac (Zalău) for offering his opinion on the text.

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Information: ELECTRUM, 2024, Volume 31, pp. 127-141

Article type: Original article

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3291-5793

Rada Varga
Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3291-5793 Orcid
All publications →

Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

Archaeology Institute of the Romanian Academy, Iași
Romania

National Union Museum, Alba Iulia
Romania

Published at: 17.05.2024

Article status: Open

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Work on this article was supported by a fellowship granted by the Gerda Henkel Foundation on Assessing identity markers through material culture: the Batavians of Roman Dacia and by a grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS-UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2021-0165, within PNCDI III.

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Rada Varga (Author) - 33.33%
Alexander Rubel (Author) - 33.33%
George Bounegru (Author) - 33.33%

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