Dépôts de vases en céramique dans les tombes de la Transylvanie des VIIe-Xe siècles / Pottery off erings in graves from Transylvania during 7th–10th centuries
1 Ianuarie 2012
Cuvinte cheie:
secolele VII–X
depozite de vase
VIIe–Xe siècles
Transylvanie
tombes
dépôts de vases
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Abstract
! e archaeological evidence certifi es that the clay vessel one of the artefacts used in funerary practices by those
communities who lived in Transylvania during the 7th–10th centuries. ! e custom to place clay objects in graves
varies from one community to other, from the frequency way of speaking, regarding the funerary rituals (cremation
or inhumation) at both individual level and each of the necropolises, as well, for diff erent chronological segments
of the last centuries of the 1st millennium AD. ! e fact that only some of inhumation and cremation graves from
the 7th–10th centuries Transylvanian necropolises had also clay vessels could have a double meaning. On one hand,
the presence of pottery – entirely or broken preserved – in some of the graves has religious connections. On the
other hand, but of same importance, the presence of pottery in grave is a mirror of social realities within those
communities. ! e clay vessels placed near some of the funerary urns, or directly on the ground near the piles of
cremated human bones can be framed as funerary off erings. ! e family has placed these vessels inside graves wellaware of the magic-religious meaning of these recipients needed to the dead on his way to the ‘everlasting life’. ! e
quantity, variety of shapes, but especially the small sizes of this pottery (in most of the cases they are miniature
vessels) found in the necropolises from west Romania and the Transylvanian Plateau dated in the 7th–10th centuries
may allow to forward the hypothesis on the presence of potters specialized also on funerary pottery.
