MORMINTELE DIN MOESIA INFERIOR CU RESTURILE INCINERATIEI LA USTRINA DEPUSE ÎN GROAPA
GRAVES WITH THE REMAINS FROM THE PYRE CREMATION DEPOSITED IN A PIT FOUND IN MOESIA INFERIOR

Summary/Abstract: The author tries to define the main characteristics of the 65 graves (but only 44 graves published with valuable details) belonging to this type discovered up until now in Moesia Inferior. Based on the funerary rituals of the Latène period from the same area and the number and spatial distribution of the graves with the remains from the pyre cremation deposited in a pit or in an urn, the author believes that the two types of graves illustrate a survival in the Roman period of some funerary rituals prior to the Roman conquest. This phenomenon of survival is, at least for the cemeteries found in Moesia Inferior, a limited one, from two points of view: number (135 graves with the remains from the pyre cremation deposited in an urn and 65 graves with the remains from the pyre cremation deposited in a pit and at least 180 busta discovered up until now in Moesia Inferior) and spatial distribution (the concentration of the two types of graves in a few rural cemeteries, as Enisala, Drašan, Posta, Kragulevo).

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