Apariție editorială: The Northern Necropolis of Apulum. “Ambulance Station” 1981–1985

The Northern Necropolis of Apulum. “Ambulance Station” 1981–1985
 
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„There is no better argument for an archaeological undertaking on the site from Apulum than the creed embraced by the founder of History, Archaeology and Natural Sciences Society, dr. Adalbert Cserni at the end of the XIXth century.
Few towns of Roman provinces, and definitely none of Dacia, enjoyed such development, such rapid flourishment, as Apulum. Still, luckily for them, and unfortunately for Apulum, the same few underwent such rapid and continuous destruction.
Forgotten research becomes more and more difficult to valorize. Sometimes, it even becomes impossible. Following almost a quarter of a century from the end of campaigns from Stația de Salvare, the way they were known, which resulted in unearthing of an impressive number of Roman and early medieval graves, a part of the authors of the research decided to cede the scientific rights to George Valentin Bounegru, who completed his doctoral thesis on history, with a subject on funerary archaeology, to valorize the Roman cemetery from here. While editing the doctoral thesis, we had the opportunity to process the data known at that moment on the necropolises from Apulum.
At the beginning, researches came across obstacles, documentary material being incomplete: drawings were missing, grave cards were missing, films, photos were missing. Of those found, we attempted to reconstruct discoveries of contexts and to a great extent we were successful. Obviously, that their appearance subsequent to this paper will come to complete as in a puzzle a picture already established of the northern necropolis from Apulum and certainly will not replace it. Equally serious as the lack of documentary material was the absence of finds of funerary inventory, mentioned within depiction of graves, sometimes also extant in drawings or/and photos, or recalled by some of the members of the team present during excavations, but lost somewhere between the restoration laboratory and inventory register.
To complete the funerary picture in Apulum we tried to find analogies, there where it was the case, with discoveries from the other great necropolis from Apulum, that from Dealul Furcilor- Podei. Similarly, we decided that where certain categories of artefacts from the graves belonging to the same necropolis (discovered in other campaigns than those from 1981–1985) are published, to approach them comparatively with our discoveries thus offering a unitary picture over the necropolis itself also from this perspective. Statistic value of discoveries created the perspective of solving not only questioning relations between structures of funerary imaginary, on the one hand and rite and ritual elements noticed in the field, on the other hand.” - Argument

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