TWO SCULPTURAL PIECES RECENTLY RETURNED TO THE NATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE
TWO SCULPTURAL PIECES RECENTLY RETURNED TO THE NATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE

Summary/Abstract: During the last 20 years, the phenomenon of poaching the archaeological sites has been developed in Romania, in order to obtain artefacts, which can be later capitalized through the illegal trade on the black market of antiques. Many decontextualized archaeological pieces - some of them of inestimable value – now belong to unauthorized collections some of which have been the subject of judicial investigations for the purpose of recovery of the artefacts but also the information regarding their discovery. The present study discusses two sculptural pieces, ‘discovered’ in a so called: ‘private collection’ of a citizen from Alba Iulia. The data obtained through the judicial investigations, corroborated with the typological-stylistic and functional analy-ses, concludes for the origin of artefacts in the area of Bucerdea Grânoasă village (Búzásbocsárd, Alba County) and in the roman antique city of Apulum.

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