Ceramică lucrată la roată cu turație rapidă din pastă zgrunțuroasă, descoperită în cimitirele din secolele VII-X din vestul României
Fast Wheel Pottery from Coarse Paste Discovered in the 7th-10th Century Cemeteries of Western Romania

Summary/Abstract: In the Carpathian Basin, sometime in the 7th century, medium wheel pottery appeared, generically referred to as Danube-type pottery. It evolves in different ways from one region to another, until it stabilises as a type of vessel over large areas of central and south-eastern Europe in the 8th century. Thanks to the technical innovations that have taken place over time in perfecting the potter’s wheel, ceramics will also be produced on the fast wheel. Pottery worked on a fast-moving wheel in Transylvania in the 7th-10th centuries is not an ethnic attribute. Wheel-thrown pottery is a type of artefact present not only in Early Medieval settlements, but also in burial and biritual cemeteries in Transylvania, north-western Romania and Crișana, dating from the Middle Avar period (650/670), and uninterrupted until the end of the 10th century (Tab. 1-2). This archaeological reality supports that all groups of populations archaeologically attested at the level of material, and especially spiritual, culture in Transylvania have known fast wheel pottery. These are mainly the Avar and Slavic populations, identified by the groups of Avar cemeteries in the central area of Transylvania, at the Mureș river bend, as well as those of the Mediaș Group, attributable to the Slavic and Slavo-Avar populations of the Transylvanian Plateau.

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