Roman Age pottery at the fort Băneasa, collected in 2017 archaeological campaign
Roman Age pottery at the fort Băneasa, collected in 2017 archaeological campaign

Summary/Abstract: The authors are testing here an older impression, that the Roman pottery from western and eastern sidesof the Olt River (Alutus) is not exactly the same. In order to accomplish a comparison, they are using twosets of data: the normalised data offered by the old monograph of the Roman pottery from Oltenia(Popilian 1976) and the ceramic inventory from the digging campaign at the Roman fort from Băneasa(Teleorman county, 20 km east of Olt River).A methodological section explains the criteria followed for classifying the sherds, in order to have both anarchaeological report and the object of comparison with previous collections of data. At the end of thatsection there is explained the annex of the study, containing the detailed description of the ceramic pastes,as well as some statistics of the recurrence of the main types.The larger section of the study is an illustrated and commented catalogue of the pottery from Băneasa,sorting data in the next order: recipients for transportation, for storage, for cooking, for drinking and foreating, ending with the lids – a multifunctional category – and mortaria.A last section of the paper tries to bring a solution to an older problem: how different is the pottery fromthe eastern fringes of Dacia inferior compared with that – better known – from the core of the province,located west of the Lower Olt River; a comparison still difficult, as working with such differentcollections (a full-shape catalogue of recipients versus a complete inventory from one digging).

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