CONTRIBUTII LA ISTORIA SPORTULUI ÎN DACIA ROMANA.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN SPORT IN THE PROVINCE OF DACIA.

Summary/Abstract: The fragments of a square glass bottle was found in the year 1974 in a horreum on the latus praetorii sinistrum of the Roman fort at Bologa (Dacia Porolissensis; Rescullum ?) (fig. 1-2). The bottle couldn’t be reconstituted owing its fragmentary state. Only its graphic reconstitution allowed the author to establish that it represents a one-handled rectangular bottle. The body is moulded of good quality paste, with rare small bubbles. The neck is short in relation to the length of the body. On the basis of the bottle there is a marking. The author couldn’t find analogies for it. The author gives a minute description of the bottle and the marking and discusses some general problems in connection with the tipology of the marking, dating and origine of the square bottles. The author considers that the questions in connection with the origine, dating and historical interpretation of the marking haven’t been solved yet. He hopes that his considerations may facilitate the answer to this questions. On the basis of the image on the body of the bottle (fig. 3) the author considers that she represents a boxing scene. The analogies used in the favour of this consideration (fig. 4-8) helps the hypothesis of the author.

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