CONTRIBUŢII LA STUDIUL SECTORULUI SUDIC AL CANABELOR ROMANE DE LA APULUM / MUNICIPIUM SEPTIMIUM APULENSE. RAPORT PRELIMINAR PRIVIND CERCETĂRILE ARHEOLOGICE PREVENTIVE DE LA ALBA IULIA, STR. IZVORULUI, NR. 5
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF THE SOUTHERN SECTOR OF ROMAN CANABAE FROM APULUM / MUNICIPIUM SEPTIMIUM APULENSE. PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PREVENTIVE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FROM ALBA IULIA, STR. IZVORULUI, NO. 5

Summary/Abstract: The authors present the preliminary results obtained following three preventive archaeological researches in the southern canabae sector of Apulum / Municipium Septimium Apulense in the years 2016 and 2017 (pl. 1/1-2). The discovered materials date back to Roman times (II – III centurys) and early Middle Ages (Xth century), but on this occasion are presented the Roman ones. Their dating was based on some brooches and coins. street serving the buildings on Izvorului Street, no. 5, 5A, 5B and 5C. The average width is 2.20 m and the length is 83 m. The second research - S I / 2017 (pl. 9- 13) was occasioned by the construction of a dwelling on Izvorului Street, no. 5 B, with an area of 190 sqm. The third research - S II / 2017 (pl. 14-28) was carried out for the archaeological discharge of a land on Izvorului Street, no. 5, to build a home. On the researched area (175 sqm) were discovered 28 archaeological complexes, of which 27 date back to Roman times and one of the early Middle Ages (Xth century); to these are added walls and foundations of walls (pl. 19/1-3; 20/1-4) belonging to some buildings of Municipium Septimium Apulense. Judging by the walls and foundations of the walls discovered in S II / 2017, we identified three levels of habitation from Roman times, wich dates back to the end of the 2nd century – 3rd century AD(pl. 18/1-2). So these buildings belonged to the canabae phase and the municipium phase. It should also be noted that in a well discovered in the same section (Cx 22 - pl. 27 / 1-3), at the depth of -5.10 m deep was discovered the disk of a geometric spiral brooch of the type Cociş 24a1a, which dates back to the IInd century AD, therefore, in the canabae phase, and in the same well other two brooches dated to the IIIrd century AD were identified: one in the form of the letter T of the type Cociş 39b4c3, discovered at a depth of -1.75 m, chronologically framed in the first half of the IIIrd century AD, and the second T-shaped, but with returned foot, of the type Cociş 37b2a, discovered at a depth of -2.10 m, being framed in the middle of the IIIrd century AD. Considering these aspects, we believe there where two aspects in the work. First, we can see that the well was dug in the IInd century AD, and after it was abandoned it was filled over several decades, including in the IIIrd century AD, from which it would appear that it was carried out in the canabae stage. Secondly, the possibility that the geometrical fibula of the IInd century AD to be preserved / transmitted until mid-century. III AD, a hypothesis in which it can no longer be taken into account the variant in which the fountain would have been dug during the dwelling in canabae, but in the municipium phase. Future research carried out in that area will complement the few existing information on housing in the southern sector of the canabae / municipium Septimium Apulense.

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