Un fragment de inscripţie elenistică descoperită în cetăţuia getică
A Fragment of a Hellenistic Inscription Discovered in the Getic Fortress from Bărboşi-Galaţi

Summary/Abstract: The marble fragment, which has a text written in Greek script engraved on it, was discovered in a house belonging to the last layer (D3) of the Getic fortress from Bărboşi-Galaţi. It is still possible to perceive 31 letters (with a height between 0.67 cm – 1.27 cms) on the marble fragment (16.6 cms in length, 5.7-5.9 in width, with a maximum thickness of 9.2 cms). The letters are disposed on six rows, not uniformly aligned, but starting, each of them, from a point situated to the right from the beginning of the previous raw (figure 1). It was not possible to identify any proper name in the text. There were several proposals of restoring the full text, which were based on the hypothesis that the piece represented a fragment from a marble stela on which a honorific decree was engraved. The duct of the letters could suggest a dating of the inscription during the III-rd century, eventually at the beginning of the II-nd century B.C. Most probable, the full text of the inscription referred to a basileus and to a polis. The name of the polis started with the letters LY and it could have been Lysimacheia, though there were some other polises whose names started with LY. A word meaning both „summer” and „crop” suggests that the text might have mentioned the problems faced by some colonies in their relation with some populations. Such situations are signaled in several inscriptions, such as the well-known decree in the honor of Agathocles, the son of Antiphilos (ISM, 1,15). The marble fragment was re-used and the article presents several notes and images retraced on it, also making some comments on the fragments of script identified on it. We also issue several hypothesis regarding the unexpected presence of this fragment of inscription in a Dacian fortress. The reference to some migratory populations and the sketching of several such people on the marble fragment could suggest that it was re-used during the last decades of the I-st century A.D. The author claims that the fortress from Bărboşi was conquered by the Romans during their first war with the Dacians.

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