Valeriu Sîrbu

• Professor
• Researcher at Institute of Archaeology ”V. Pârvan” Bucharest; Museum of Braila ”Carol I”

Cuvinte-cheie: dava, castrum, castellum, Moesia Inferior Rezumat. Poziţia geografică a sitului i-a conferit un loc aparte în preocupările strategice şi economice ale imperiilor şi populaţiilor care au intrat în contact cu spaţiul dunăreano-pontic, fapt dovedit de numărul, varietatea şi calitatea descoperirilor arheologice, fortuite sau datorate cer...

The sites from Şuţeşti have relatively recently (re) appeared in the specialized literature, after the archaeological research was initiated. Only three points of interested had been mentioned before, following a surface survey. The year 2006 marked the simultaneous start of the research at the locations Fortification and Popină. The archaeological...

The study explores one of the most emblematic weapons, the curved sica dagger, found in the panoply of the warrior aristocracy of the Thracians, Gets, Balkan Celts and Dacians between the mid-4th century BC and the early 2 nd century AD. The analysis of the subject is underpinned by an extensive database covering all known daggers. The volume of in...

The paper focuses on the map of Transylvania drawn up by Giovanni Morando Visconti, shortly after the principality came into possession of the Habsburg Monarchy following the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699, and printed in the same year in Sibiu (Hermannstadt). The contributions of this map to the knowledge of the Roman monuments from Transylvania, Ban...

The book focuses on mountain archaeology, specifically in the South-Eastern Carpathians, and presents a variety of research methods and approaches, including the use of LIDAR technology and other related sciences. This will make a significant contribution to the development of archaeology, as it will provide a better understanding of how people hav...

In addition to the decades-long known archaeological ensemble (consisting of a 6th-3rd centuries BC settlement and tumuli necropolis) on Celic Dere valley, in Northern Dobruja, a second settlement (Cassiana) of the same period was recently documented – just 2.5 km to the east – on the same river valley, right near Celic Dere Monastery. The newly su...

Starting with late 2018, a new archaeological research project has been unfolding in the framework funded by the Romanian Governmental Unit for Research and Development (UEFISCDI) dedicated to top fundamental research, as one of the few winners of 2016 edition (the single to date) of ‘Complex Projects for Frontier Research’ competition. The Project...

Archaeological Monograph. We present one of the most spectacular early Hellenistic funerary monuments, recently excavated on the western Black Sea coast by a Romanian-Bulgarian-Polish interdisciplinary research team. Documaci Tumulus, covering a painted tomb, and marked by a monumental statue, was built at the threshold of the 4th to 3rd centuries...

Between 1985 and 1988, 14 Sarmatian graves were excavated at Prăjeni (Botoșani County), in the locations known as Alimândra, Nelipești, Țarnă and Lutărie 2. These graves have not been systematically published but information about them may be found in the literature published so far. The authors intend, by this contribution, to publish the data con...

(Journal: ANGVSTIA 24) The article opens a series of reports detailing the results of an extensive multi-annual archaeological survey grounded on a large-scaled airborne LiDAR analysis carried on in a heavily forested mountainous archaeological landscape characterized by spectacular volcanic relief. The studied area, the Olt Gorge between Augustin...

Ever since the first systematic investigations at Grădiștea de Munte - Sarmizegetusa Regia, it has been observed that the temples in the sacred area have been intentionally destroyed in ancient times. This systematic destruction, which involved much effort, was attributed by most researchers to the Romans, who conquered the capital in 106 AD. The s...

Excavations (2019 Campaign) in an early Hellenistic mound with chamber tomb and krepis, part of the necropolis of ancient Greek Kallatis, on the western Black Sea

This article explores the practice of delimiting tumuli graves with stone enclosures, mainly in the Classical and Hellenistic cemeteries of Kallatis/Callatis (Mangalia), a Dorian establishment on the western Black Sea, following the recent exploration of a monumental tumulus ensemble, the Documaci Mound, built at the end of the 4th c. BC-early 3rd...

Located in the vicinity of the most important ford over the Danube, in its lowest sector, along a road connecting the Northern steppes with the Western Black Sea Greek colonies, the archaeological site at Telița ‘Celic Dere’ (Tulcea County, Romania) advances the opportunity to investigate significant aspects of the transition between the late Halls...

Movila Documaci was a large funerary mound (initial diameter of at least 50 m and height of 8 m), part of a tumuli group located in the western periphery of the ancient cemetery of Kallatis, at 3 km west from the Hellenistic era enclosure. It was severely damaged in 1993, during the illegal extraction of soil from its embankment by heavy machines;...

The fortress on Edirlen Hill had the purpose of controlling the circulation of people and goods along two main axes, one from north to south, connecting the Greek colonies and the Isaccea shallows over the Danube, and the other, from east to west, from the ancient Aegyssus to Central Dobruja. The fortification consisted of a wall made of unfinished...

The summer Colloquium held between 14 and 17 July, 2016, entitled “Iron Age fortifi cations on the Tisa-Dniester space” brought together experts from universities and research centers in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iaşi, Deva, Brăila, Cernăuţi, Tiraspol, Chişinău etc. The issues discussed are of particular interest because they addressed several aspect...

The study focusses on the monumental elements of the 4 th-3 rd centuries BC cemeteries of Kallatis: the use of large tumuli, the implementation of a systematized network of funerary plots, the extent of the burial grounds, the discovery of a series of built chamber tombs under tumuli with elements of decorated architecture, including mural painting...

Pumnalul sica în nordul Dunării

The study presents a group of five early Hellenistic chamber tombs with barrel vaults found under barrows in the vicinity of Kallatis (nowadays Mangalia, in Romania), a Greek colony at the Western Black Sea, founded in the lands of Northern Thracians. Their distinctiveness is emphasized by making references to the contemporaneous surrounding Greek...

Excavated since 1985, the biritual tumuli and flat graves necropolis from Telița-Celic Dere (Tulcea, Romania) has remained known to the scientific public only through general and rather brief presentations, even if the archaeological discoveries made here propose the site as one of the key elements for the comprehension of the cultural processes an...

We intend, in the first part of the study, to publish the helmet with figurative representations of Greek-Illyrian type, discovered at Gǎvojdia and, in the second part, to analyse the scenes represented on that helmet in the context of the Balkans art. Th e helmet made of a sheet of bronze with silver appliqués and found by accident in the Timiş Ri...

We intend, in the fi rst part of the study, to publish the helmet with fi gurative representations of Greek-Illyrian type, discovered at Găvojdia and, in the second part, to analyse the scenes represented on that helmet in the context of the Balkans art. < e helmet made of a sheet of bronze with silver appliqués and found by accident in the Timiș R...

This article is the selective preliminary publication of several complexes and artifacts discovered in the Dacian site from Bǎneşti-Dealul Domnii, datable to 1st c BC-1st c AD. Archaeologists dag out, on a tall plateau, 17 pits and 11 agglomerations of materials containing pieces of a burnt layer from the walls of several dwellings and hearths, ash...

The authors intend to raise the discussion about how the identity of the dead was constructed with reference to male-female social roles, in the case of North-Thracian tumuli graves, attempting in an extended perspective to debate the meaning and specific attributes of gendered identities in the Thracian society. The clearest references about how s...

Our analysis tried to illustrate two important aspects: on one hand, the integration of some of the early Sarmatian graves from the Wallachia Plain in a larger context of finds and, on the other, the presence of Sarmatians in the territory of the Roman Empire. The relations of the Sarmatians from the Wallachia Plain with the Dacians, and the Roman...

The archaeological assemblage from Teliţa -Celic Dere, represents for the 7th-3rd centuries’ archaeology a true extraordinary case. Not only its unusual mixture of material cultural aspects (Babadag - final stage, Getae, Greek imports, pre Scythian and Scythian elements) grounds this statement, but the opportunity offered to scientists to study bot...

I. Observaţii preliminare. Contextul descoperirii Complexul la care ne vom referi în paginile de faţă a fost descoperit, cu ocazia săpăturilor din anii 1975-1976 în localitatea Streisângeorgiu (astăzi înglobată oraşului Călan, jud. Hunedoara). Cercetările au vizat investigarea complexului medieval datând din sec. XI-XV. Cu acel prilej a fost identi...

Continuité de l'habitation géto-dace en époque romaine et cohabitation des géto-daces et des romains après la construction d'un castellum dans la région (attestée par les découvertes archéologiques) ; fortifications sur les deux rives du Danube, politique romaine d'un " espace de sécurité ", stratégie de défense romaine ; inexistence d'une campagne...