Un mormânt princiar din epoca migrațiilor, descoperit la Alba Iulia
A Princely Grave from the Migration Period, Discovered at Alba Iulia

Summary/Abstract: In the spring of 2022, as part of a private real estate development project located on 51, Brândușei Street, preventive archaeological research was carried out in the Izvorul Împaratului - Crăicuța site, located approximately 1000 m south of the Vauban-type bastion fortification, and implicitly, the Roman fort at Apulum. Also, the area is at the S limit of the Roman canabae. The research carried out at this point led to the discovery of an inhumation tomb dated to the migration era, the 5th-6th centuries AD, belonging to the Gepid cultural horizon. The tomb was intended for an important personage, a princess or acolyte of a leader of the Gepid community in this area. The burial inventory is mainly composed of precious metal ornaments (gold and silver), namely an earring, beads, two bracelets and a bilateral bone comb. The presence of this tomb in the vicinity of the Apulum, as well as three other points where necropolises of the Gepid population were identified, suggests the possibility of the existence of a power centre, where we can assume Apulum, the old Roman city, was the capital of a Gepid kingdom that spread along the Mureș valleys in the second half of the 5th century - the first half of the 6th century.

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