Vestigii Romane Din Zona Actualului Oraș Mediaș
Roman Vestiges From the Area of the Current Mediaș City

Summary/Abstract: The area of Medias was in Roman times an exclusively rural region. However, this reality does not mean at all that there was not an extensive process of Romanization carried out mainly by the colonists brought since the time of Emperor Trajan. In this study we focused on a number of five artifacts that we considered representative for the Romanization of this island of Romanization. The first piece we present is a Roman statuette head with inventory number 4319 and the following technical data: 15 cm long, of which 9.8 cm belong exclusively to the head and 10 cm wide. The artifact represents, in our opinion, Apollo Belvedere, a votive piece, and the only known analogy comes from Apulum. The second sculptural monument is also a head, located like its predecessor in an upright position, but unlike the original piece from Biertan, which is a votive one, it is an honorary one representing the image of a Roman emperor from the third century, from the dynasty of emperors. military, most likely Trajan Decius (249 - 251), the first Caesar to end his defeat at the hands of the barbarians, is the captain of the Cniva Goths, who defeated him at the battle of Abrittus in 251. he third artifact to which we make in the following a short presentation represents a fragment of a funerary star or rather a funerary aedicule with the representation of the Deceased Rider. The sculptural fragment was discovered in 1971, 0.5 km west of the „Gura Câmpului” neighborhood, on the occasion of the municipal excavations made in the courtyard of the citizen Mihai Cioara. The last sculptural monument within the Medieş institution, which we briefly present, are two attached funerary lions sculpted in a classical position, discovered in 1971, on the occasion of the urban works that took place in the courtyard of Mihai Cioara from Medieş (located at approximately 0.5 km from the current neighborhood Gura Câmpului) The last vestige of this study, namely the inscribed glass was brought to the surface following the archeological excavations carried out in the Roman settlement from Gura Câmpului - Hășmaș in the years 1975-1977. We are of the opinion that the characters inscribed on the glass discovered in the perimeter of the settlement from Mediaș - Gura Câmpului - Hășmaș are tiny Greek italics, with ligatures, and their order is: omicron, miu, omega, phi, theta and upsilon; but if they are part of a word, it does not appear to be Greek, but rather Oriental Semitic, given the number of consonants, triconsonant. This is the reason why we tend rather to the variant of a possible graphonumeric or graphotextual code or brand of vessel vessel / workshop / master with Greek cursive characters (lowercase with ligatures) or even a writing exercise with randomly chosen terms.

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