MONUMENTE INEDITE DE LA APULUM
NEW MONUMENTS FROM APULUM

Summary/Abstract: There is no novelty the fact that annualy next to the systematic archaeological researches or rescue ones from the spread territorium of the two urban centres from Apulum are discovered by chance different Roman artefacts that consit of: ceramic fragments, numismatic pieces (sometimes monetary hoards), monuments of provincial art and not finally epigraphic altars, preserved intact or fragmentary, inscriptions that are added to more than 700 texts, issued in their great majority in Latin (See Inscriptions d’Apulum (Inscriptions de la Dacie romaine, III/5 Paris, Ioan Piso has been taken care of the volume )) and which appeared along time here. The two new epigraphic tombs, among which one is dedicated to Iupiter Optimus Maximus and another to a deity, that cannot be stated, appeared by chance in two points from the area of Municipium Septimium Apulense. Much more interesting is the monument having a square shape, decorated with a scene spread in the funerary symbolistic of Roman Dacia – image in which there appeared a rider – the heroized rider – and his opponent, probably “a barbarian”. The author thinks that the gravesonemade from lime might have belonged to a military deceased from Apulum, and its discovery on the other side of the southwestern corner of the XIIIth Legion Gemina Roman fort, might belong to a necropolis destroyed by the urbanistic work carried on within this space, around 1965-1970.

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