AUTHOR: Zsigmond Lóránd Bordi
PAGES: 237–271
LANGUAGE: Romanian with English abstract and figures captions.
ABSTRACT: The fortification of Comolău is known especially due to the Roman period discoveries found on its territory. Besides these, the archaeological researches carried out in the years 1909-1910 and 1942 had evidenced a series of discoveries that can be included in the Sântana de Mureş-Černjachov culture.
The material is here published; it did not cover the entire palette of the finds. The ceramic material discovered can be divided into two categories depending on how it was made. The hand-made ceramics consist of 8 pieces (pots, cups and lamp-cups), while the one made on the potter’s wheel (23 pieces) are of a larger variation, wherefrom we can distinguish pots, mugs, jugs, bowls and storage vessels. There are still seven pieces (a crucible and six spindle whorls) that could equally be included in the Roman or Post-Roman period, but they cannot be attributed more precisely due to the lack of context in which they were discovered. The fragmentary state of the collected archaeological material, the lack of the pieces specific to the different phases of the culture, and the lack of monetary discoveries, interfere with the dating of the Post-Roman dwelling at Comolău, about which it can only be said that it had started around the time of the withdrawal of the Roman administration and army from Dacia, and lasted until the seven-eighth decade of the 4th century.
Ceramica postromană (cultura Sântana de Mureş - Černjachov) din fortificația de la Comolău/Post-Roman (Sântana de Mureș-Černjachov culture) pottery from the fortification of Comolău