NOI ARTEFACTE ROMANE AFLATE ÎN COLECTIILE MUZEELOR DIN SEBES SI ALBA IULIA
NEW ROMAN ARTIFACTS FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF MUSEUMS FROM SEBES AND ALBA IULIA

Summary/Abstract: The authors talk about some Roman artifacts found in the storehouses of the museums from Sebes and Alba Iulia (Alba county, Romania). The first piece is a fragmentary votive plaque with an inscription dedicated to a deity. The second is a head of a statue with the hairdo of Faustina Senior, discovered in Lancram (Alba county, Romania), 10 km south from Apulum. It dates from the time of the Severian dinasty. The next three pieces are fragments of two limestone statues representing the iconographic type Iupiter tronans. The sixth one is a clay antefixa with the image of Iupiter discovered in Apulum, in the area of the biggest Roman town in Dacia, colonia Aurelia Apulensis. Another two pieces of this type were discovered in Apulum, south-east from the Roman legionary camp, in the place where A. Cserni, the first custodian of the Museum from Alba Iulia, has discovered a smallpart of the ancient Apulum. The seventh one is an artifact representing the left hand of a votive statue of Higya keeping the snake, the attribute of this goddess. The valorisation of Roman sculptural pieces preserved in the storehouses of museums is a welcome step for understanding the cultural and religious aspects of provincial Roman life.

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