REPREZENTARI ANTROPO-ZOOMORFE APARTINÂND CULTURII GUMELNITA ÎN COLECTIA MUZEULUI REGIUNII PORTILOR DE FIER, DROBETA-TURNU-SEVERIN
ANTHROPOMORPHOUS-ZOOMORPHIC REPRESENTATIONS BELONGING TO GUMELNITA CULTURE FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE IRON GATES’ REGION MUSEUM, DROBETA-TURNU-SEVER

Summary/Abstract: The present article presents some objects of plastic art from the Eneolithic Gumelnita culture, which were discovered at the beginning of the 20th Century in a tell on the area of the Jilava comune, county Ilfov, the site being destroyed during quarrying for gravel. According to some soundings excavated by Dinu V. Rosetti in 1929-1931, at the site Magura Jilava the existence of a single settlement layer of phase B1 of the Gumelnita culture was documented. Due to the planned exploitation of gravel, before the soundings very many objects had been collected from the site. Many of these finds, discovered by chance, were bought by Dr. Constantin Istrati-Capsa for his personal exhibition, which was to form a basis for the second museum institution in Drobeta-Turnu-Severin founded in 1924, named Muzeul Dr. C. I. Istrati. The heritage from this museum was transferred to the Museum of the Iron Gates’ Region in the early 1950´s, where a large part of the former Istrati-Capsa collection is still preserved today. Among the materials of this collection there are nine anthropomorphic-zomorphic sculptures, of which six have never been published: the fragment of an anthropomorphic vessel, an anthropomorphic bone figurine, the clay reprezentation of an hedgehog and three vessel-lids with anthropomorphic handles. In addition there are two pots of daily use and a miniature house discovered by chance at the same Magura Jilava site and which complement the Gumelnita material in the collection of the Museum of the Iron Gates’ Region.

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