GRAVES BELONGING TO THE FIRST HORIZON FROM ALBA IULIA-STAȚIA DE SALVARE. DISCOVERIES MADE DURING THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FROM 1980 AND 1981

• Autorzy: Dragotă Aurel , Popescu Monica-Elena , Blăjan Mihai
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The present paper discusses the analysis of the 18 graves discovered during the research carried out between 1980 and 1981 at Alba Iulia-Stația de Salvare. The following data is designed to provide additional information on the Transylvanian funerary landscape at the dawn of the Middle Ages. The research carried out at the site mentioned above has revealed some truly remarkable information about an archaeological find that is only partially understood. In terms of the grave orientation, a wide range can be observed so that one cannot highlight a predominant. All 18 uncovered graves present a diverse and numerous funerary inventory: weapons (battle axes, arrowheads, daggers), utensils (flint, knife, blades, steel, skins, burnt spindle whorls), adornments and clothing accessories (buttons, Kecel type buckles, beads, earrings, rings, bracelets, torques, pendants, appliques, coins) and pottery. In addition to these elements, remains of animal offerings deposited at the time of the deceased’s burial were discovered in the sepulchral pits. At the current research stage, it is appropriate to add the graves that are the subject of this article to the 87 found between 1981 and 1985 in the same area. Taking into account elements of rite and ritual, funerary inventory, and other conclusive aspects, one can place the graves within the first funerary horizon dated to the 9th – 10th c., when existed Bulgarian enclave in Transylvania. All these burial finds can be added to those made at Blandiana A and Sebeș (Alba County, Romania) and facilitate the idea that a Bulgarian enclave existed in the Transylvanian area in the 9th – 10th c.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

TRANSYLVANIA; EARLY MIDDLE AGES; FUNERAL RITE; BULGARIANS

• Wydawca: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Institute
• Czasopismo: Slovenská archeológia (Slovak Archaeology)
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: 70
• Numer: 1
• Strony: 119 – 152

Twórcy

autor

Dragotă Aurel

• Universitatea Lucian Blaga din Sibiu, Facultatea de Științe Socio-Umane, Patrimoniu și Teologie Protestantă, Bulevardul Victoriei 5 – 7, RO – 550024 Sibiu, Romania,

autor

Popescu Monica-Elena

autor

Blăjan Mihai

Identyfikatory

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovarch.2022.70.6