NOI DESCOPERIRI CU CARACTER "STEPIC" ÎN ENEOLITICUL TRANSILVĂNEAN
NEW DESCOVERIES OF "STEPPIC" CHARACTER IN THE TRANSYLVANIAN ENEOLITHlC

Summary/Abstract: The study is prescnting two stone objccts belonging to thc archaeological eollections of the Muzeul Naţional al Unirii in Alba Iulia. The tirst object is a zoomorphic sceptre discovered in a sand quarry. near the railway station ofVinţu de Jos (fig.I). It has good parallels inlhe North-Pontic region (Suvorovo). as \Vell as in Moldavia (Fcdclc~eni. Fitioneşti). Dobrudja (Casimcea) Of Macedonia (Suvodol). The sccptre of Vinţu de Jos is th,: tirsl of this lype in the Transylvanian n:gion and could bc datcd in the latc Eneolithic period. The second lind is a stonc macehead with tt)[lr knobs (lig.2). discovcred by a peasanl in the villagc of Şard (com Ighiu. jud. Alba). during the excavation of a J(llllltain. It could bclong tn a grave of Decea Murcşului lype. Both objccts reprcscnts eastern e1ements li-ol11 the North-Pontic slepic arca. which penctrated insidc the Carpathian basin in thc Late Eneolotic period.

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