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21/11/2015event, Newsadmin

Identity and culture for the third time

On the 17th of November 2015 the third edition of the Students’ Scientific Association Conference has been organized in the topic ”Identity and Culture“ at the Faculty of Architecture from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The topic focuses on the cultural, scientific and turistical valorification of the Roman limes sector from Mureș County, Romania, especially on the heritage potentials of Călugăreni, for three years by far. The large interest in this topic, among the three-year old tradition, is also shown by the six “contestants”, each of them presenting projects related either to creating a multidisciplinary scientific base in Călugăreni, or to the valorification of the unique blend of Roman heritage and WW I shooting ditches in the same area. One of our team member took part in the jury composed of architect and archaeologist specialists, and had a very hard job to evaluate the interesting and thought-provoking projects.

14/11/2015Conference presentations, International Conference, Newsadmin

Journey to the West in Roman style. The Limes Congress in Ingolstadt 2015

Between the 13^th and 20^th of September 2015, two members of our team joined the 23^rd edition of Limes Congress in Ingolstadt, Germany. The one-week long intensive programme including many presentations and excursions was a great exercise both to our mind and body.

The four days of presentations included sessions related to signalling in the army; industry and commerce; defense strategies; reconstructions; crafts; Roman soldiers and religion, the Danube limes; timber forts; and many other sessions. Due to the huge interest and large audience these presentations were held simultaneously in four different rooms. Live video transmission in other rooms for those who could not manage to fit in the presentation rooms, was also a very useful facility.

During the excursions we visited many of the sites situated along the Raetian limes, like the famous fort and Limes Museum from Ruffenhofen, Eining, Pförring, the celtic oppidum of Manching, Regensburg and many other wonders of the beautiful Bavaria.

Our presentations and poster were dealing with the eatern limes of Roman Dacia that was approached in a multidisciplinary manner. We could present our foreign colleagues our limes part and the results of the recent researches in the domain, promoting in the same time the protection of this heritage.

14/11/2015Conference presentations, National Conferenceadmin

Discussing military and civilian art in Roman Dacia

On the 23^rd and 24^th of October 2015 a two-day long national archaeology conference was hosted by the History Museum of Turda for the 3^rd consecutive time, with the extensive participation of specialists from universities, museums and research institutes from across the country. The topic of the session encompassed various aspects of provincial Roman art in Dacia, focusing on the confluence of military and civilian artistic expression within the province. Our team was represented by Dávid Petruț who held a presentation on the subject of the funerary monuments discovered in the area of the auxiliary fort from Brâncovenești on the eastern limes of the province. The lectures engaged fruitful discussions related to modern approaches in the research of military provincial art. Besides the talks, the guests had the opportunity of attending the opening of the archaeological exhibition entitled: ‘Roman Potaissa. An archaeological retrospective’.

18/07/2015Newsadmin

3R (Roman) Festival

The Mureș County Museum and the Barn Theatre Association kindly invites you to the 3R (Roman) Festival which will take place in Călugăreni on the 8th of August 2015.More than 1500 years after the fall of the Roman Empire, the Roman frontiers will be populated again! The gladiators, Roman legionary soldiers, slaves, barbarians as well as the citizens of Rome will return to Călugăreni. The 3R (ROMAN) Festival offers a series of excellent social and family programmes, through which visitors, regardless of age, will have the chance to know the secret of Romans, their crafts, daily life, military techniques and all the other aspects inherited from them.

Dress code: tunic or any other similar and comfortable dress.

The festival will start with the parade of the Romans at 10 o’clock A.M., on the 8th of August 2015 at the Barn Theatre from Călugăreni.

In 2015 the Empire strikes back!

The programme of the festival will be available here soon: A
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04/07/2015Newsadmin

Landscape, image, heritage

In the period between the 1st and 4th of July 2015 a summer school entitled „Landscape, image, heritage” took place in Vărgata (Mureș County). The event was organized by the Faculty of Technical and Human Sciences of the Sapientia University, Târgu Mureș, in joint with the PR-ALPHA Association; Focus Eco Center (Târgu Mureș); The Town Hall of Vărgata and Tündér Ilona Pension from Valea. As part of an annual series (IXth Barn Seminar from Vărgata) the summer school offered a very colourful programme including presentations about hydrological, historycal, archaeological problems related to the general topic. The participants could also get an insight into andscape and heritage issue as it was reflected in photography or ethnology.

The respective event provided a good occasion for us to promote the eastern limes from Dacia as cultural landscape presented by one of our colleagues.

04/06/2015Newsadmin

Colloquium on the ancient Illyria and Epirus

A three-days-long international colloquium (L’Illyrie Méridionale et L’Épire dans L’Antiquité – VIe colloque international, au Musée National de Tirana) has been held in Tirana, Albania, between the 20th and 23rd of May 2015. The prestigious conference was organized by the Universite Lyon 2, France together with the Centre des Etudes Alabanologiques, Institut D’Archeologie, Albania and it was hosted by the National Museum of Tirana. The conference was focusing on general (epigraphy, numismatics, history) and particular ( history of ancient sites: Durres, Apollonia, Antigoneia etc.) subjects related to the ancient area of Illyria and Epirus from the Prehistory up until the early Middle Ages.

One of our team member also took place on this international conference presenting the latest results of the researches carried out in the theatre from Apollonia.

18/05/2015event, Newsadmin

Warriors, boots and a yurt

The exhibition ‘Avar warriors in Transylvania‘ organized by the Roman Limes Research Centre and the Gurghiu Department of Mureș County Museum opened the series of the colourful activities in the Castle as part of the national event ‘Night of the Museum’ on the 16th of May 2015. The exhibition was completed by the activities of various workshops focusing mainly on the everyday life of the communities from the Avar-period. In this sense a yurt was erected, a typical structure of eastern nomad populations and the main venue for most of their everyday activities where visitors could dress up in Avar costumes and make photos with themselves. Beside the reconstructions featured in the exhibition, the organisers of the workshops wore typical Avar-period costumes, thus contributing to the authentic historical atmosphere. The visitors had the opportunity to try out various craftsmen activities. They could make different accessories from felt and they could also try to make their typical Avar strap end applique used as necklace ornament. The children were engaged in special activities dedicated exclusively for them. They could design and make the costume of an Avar warrior or an Avar lady, and they could sew their own boots from textile.

The various activities and workshops so as the exhibition itself benefited from a great popularity, they attracted many visitors. Both children and adults spent a very fruitful and intersting day in the museum, experiencing in the same time the typical Avar lifestyle and crafts.

15/05/2015event, Newsadmin

‘Avar warriors in Transylvania’ – exhibition opening and workshops

The opening of the exhibition entitled ‘Avar warriors in Transylvania (Războinici avari în Transilvania)’ will be organised as part of the cultural event known as ‘Night of the Museum’ on the 16th of May 2015, at 10 o’clock AM. The exhibition focuses on different aspects of Avar-period material culture, including weapons and fighting equipment, lifestyle, male and female clothing, funerary ritual, everyday life, as well as the relations between Avars and other ethnic groups of the Carpathian Basin. The exhibition will showcase a rich array of artefacts selected and borrowed from various museums of the country, as well as an abundant explanatory material and various reconstructions of the costume, weapons and harness of the period.

The exhibition can be visited between the 16th of May and 30th of September 2015 in the exhibition hall of tMureș County Museum from the Castle, Târgu Mureș.

06/05/2015Conference presentations, Forthcoming, International Conference, Newsadmin

FIROKONF IX

The 9^th edition of the Conference for Young Researchers of the Roman Age (FIROKONF IX) was held between the 8^th and the 10^th of May 2015 in Târgu Mureș. With a total number of 74 attending participants, among which more than 50 speakers, this year’s edition provided an international forum for scholarly debate among young researches in the field of Roman archaeology and history. The conference was organised by the ROMAN LIMES RESEARCH CENTRE based at the Mureș County Museum in Târgu Mureș, with the support of the Mureș County Council and UEFISCDI. The venue of the event was the Small Hall of the Cultural Palace.

The participants from various Hungarian and Romanian research-centres proceeded in presenting the results of their research from a wide range of domains related to the study of the Roman period. The respective domains included the latest archaeological field investigations, Roman religious life, anthropology, architecture, material culture, the Roman cult of the dead, pottery production, numismatics and epigraphy.

18/04/2015event, Newsadmin

Exhibition about identity and culture

On the 21^st of April 2015 (Tuesday), at 17 o`clock, in the exhibition hall of the Mureș County Museum from the Castle there will be the opening of the exhibition entitled Identity and culture 2. Three topics, fifteen projects. The Roman limes as cultural landscape – where next?

The exhibition will be opened by Zoltán Soós, director of Mureș County Museum, being followed by the speeches of the exhibition’s curator, architect Cicelle Gaull as well as of the archaeologist Szilamér Pánczél.

The exposed material is based on the results obtained in the frame of the cooperation between the students and professors of the Department of Industrial and Agricultural Building Design of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, a collaboration which took place during a four weeks long summer school organized in Mureș County. This cooperation was established in the frame of a multiannual international project (Limes as Cultural Landscape – Erasmus IP) in the summer of 2014.

The students had the chance to present the results of their researches made in Transylvania at the Students’ Scientific Association Conference organized last year. They analyzed the possibilities of promoting the Roman sites as touristic attractions as well as the challenges regarding the preservation of this highly precious heritage. In the three proposed topic there have been submitted fifteen architectural projects, all of them being presented for the first time in Târgu Mureș. The projects were evaluated by a jury consisted of architects and archaeologists.

The exhibition can be visited from 21^st of April until 10^th of May 2015.

Digitizing the Roman Limes. Sector:Brâncovenești-Sărățeni

This work was supported by a grant of the Ministry of National Education, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-ID-PCE-2012-4-0618,
contract no. 66 from 02/09/2013