Re – restaurarea unui vas de provizii ce aparține culturii Gumelnița
Re – Restoration of a Storage Jar Belonging to the Gumelnița Culture

Summary/Abstract: As an outcome of the archaeological digs conducted by archeologist Dumitru Berciu in 1937, in the area of Ionești – Palade from Dâmbovița County, the piriform jar dates back after the first half of 5th millennium BC and belongs to the Gumelnița culture. For that time, this culture was considered to be the most advanced civilisation of Europe for its social and economic development was similar to the contemporary civilisations from Egypt and Mesopotamia, which is why the culture offered a spectacular and varied range of ceramic vessels of different shapes and dimensions.The first intervention for the restoration of the artifact took place in 1985, a year in which a large number of ceramic pieces of different periods were restored because in the following year The Museum of History from Târgoviște was inaugurated (1986), where the piece was exhibited. In 2011, after a new exhibitional reorganization of the museum, the piece was removed to the museum storage as it displayed an important number of degradations (Pl. I/1a-1e).For the most part the re-restoration steps of ceramic vessels imply a high difficulty because in the previous restoration many of the operations were performed in an empirical and careless manner (overflow of the material used for binding the fragments, plaster excess) and that required to run through some steps that determine an additional trauma for the piece (Pl. II-V).The piriform jar is a unique piece in the archaeological ceramic collection of the “The Royal Court” National Museum Complex from Târgoviște. As an illustrative piece for the period that it belonged to, more precisely the Gumelnița culture, it required re-restoration operations in order for it to complete the thematic exhibition of The Museum of History.

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