„Tezaurul” de fibule descoperit în zona Ocnele Mari/ Ocnița, jud. Vâlcea
The “Treasure” of Fibulae found in Ocnele Mari / Ocnița Area, Vâlcea County

Summary/Abstract: The article represents the first stage of the scientific capitalization of an important batch of fibulae (71 copies!), found with the metal detector in 2013-2015 on the territory of Ocnele Mari (Vâlcea County), most likely in the Geto-Dacian site of Ocnița (Dacian Buridava) and around it. Along with several hundred other archeological pieces found in the same conditions, the fibulae entered the collection of the “Aurelian Sacerdoțeanu” Vâlcea County Museum in Râmnicu Vâlcea. This batch of fibulae is slightly larger than the one discovered by the archeological excavations carried out during the years at Ocnița (69 published exemplars). There are both types and variants of fibulae already known in the Geto-Dacian center of Ocnița, as well as rarer pieces or even unique shapes, both in pre-Roman Dacia and after the Roman conquest. Due to the large number of different types of provincial Roman fibulae and the variety of origins, this lot proves to be of capital importance for knowing the emergence and imposition of Roman fibulae in the Geto-Dacian environment more than a century before the Trajan conquest (106 AD). From the perspective of chronology, the batch described covers a period of time of about two and a half centuries, from the last third / last quarter of the 1st c. BC until the first quarter of the 3rd c. AD. Since over 90% of the pieces can be dated to pre-Roman times, it can be assumed that these come from Ocnița-Cosota area, and the rest, with a later chronology, may be from nearby Roman sites.

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