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    Archaeometric Analyses of Medieval Pottery from the Lower Danube Region, Romania
    (Wiley, 2025) Constantin Haitǎ; Cristina Talmaţchi; Ana‐Maria Banici; Roxana Bugoi
    This study discusses the pottery manufacturing in the Lower Danube region during the Early Medieval period. Optical microscopy, Particle induced X-ray emission (PIXE), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) are performed on 32 ceramic shards unearthed at Pantelimonu de Sus, Constanţa County, Romania, dated to the 8th-10th c. AD. The petrographic observations show an important variability in terms of mineral composition, homogeneity, and porosity, documented by the presence of four types of ceramic paste, three indicating the use of alluvial clays and one suggestive for kaolinitic clays. The mineralogy of selected ceramic fragments is further refined by powder XRD. The principal component analysis of the PIXE data separates the fragments made of kaolinitic clays from the rest. The archaeometric investigations show that during the Early Middle Age, the potters from Pantelimonu de Sus use alluvial and kaolinitic clays, most likely of local or regional origin to manufacture various kind of vessels. Most potteries are fired in an oxidizing atmosphere-complete or incomplete-at temperatures ranging from 600 °C to 900 °C. The analytical data are compared to those previously obtained on coeval ceramic finds from some nearby archaeological sites; a certain degree of similarly of the results is evidenced.
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    One Last for the Road. A Glass Beaker with Snake-Thread Decoration found in the Necropolis from Barboși (Romania)
    (2025) Muzeul de Istorie,,Paul Păltănea” Galați; Adrian Adamescu; Laurențiu Cliante; Muzeul de Istorie Națională Constanța; Gabriel Jugănaru; Alexandra Țârlea; Facultatea de Istorie, Universitatea din București; Institutul de Cercetări Eco-Muzeale ,,Gavrilă Simion", Tulcea; Roxana Bugoi; Institutul Național de Cercetare Dezvoltare pentru Fizică și Inginerie Nucleară „Horia Hulubei”
    The paper discusses a recently discovered glass stemmed beaker with snake-thread decoration, Isings form 86, recovered during rescue excavations in 2024. The glass beaker was part of the grave goods of a cremation burial under tumulus, dated to the 2nd – 3rd c. AD, in the necropolis from Galați (Galați county, Romania), on the Danubian limes. The find, remarkable for this part of the Roman Empire, is discussed from a typological and technological point of view, in the context of glass vessels with snake-thread decoration from other regions of the Roman world.