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10/08/2014event, Newsbarn theatre, Călugăreni, gladiator fights, military demonstration, monastary, Renaissance, Roman, workshopsadmin

2R Festival

The Mureș County Museum in collaboration with the Barn Theatre Association will organize the 2R FESTIVAL in the village of Călugăreni, parish of Eremitu, Mureș County on the 23rd of August 2014.

The cultural event offers an invitation for a time travel, in the Roman and Renaissance age, marked in the local landscape by important regional and national heritage values. The Roman defensive system as well as the auxiliary fort and settlement from Călugăreni have the potential to be nominated in the UNESCO World Heritage list, and also in the international site of the „The Frontiers of the Roman Empire”. The Franciscan monastery is one of the most important monuments of the late Renaissance period of Transylvania, a prestigious spiritual centre of the region until the 20th century.
The 2R FESTIVAL – ROMAN AND RENAISSANCE – FROM CĂLUGĂRENI will present and promote during the whole day the components of the provincial Roman culture and civilization, specific to the Roman Dacia, as well as the particular features of the Transylvanian Renaissance, through a series of events and activities with cultural-educational character with considerable impact on a large audience.
In the court of the Barn Theatre from Călugăreni military demonstrations and gladiator fights will be organized with the participation of associations specialized in historical re-enactments, and workshops inspired from the Roman everyday life will be also functioning. The spirit of the Renaissance and the monastic life will be evoked in the court of the Franciscan church.

The archaeologists from the Mureș County Museum together with partners from Germany, Hungary and Romania, which are carrying out archaeological investigations in the military fort and settlement from Călugăreni this time, will provide guided tours to the archaeological excavations and will show the visitors the recently found and restored archaeological artefacts. An exhibition, entitled „Romans in Călugăreni” will also be opened. This presents the discoveries from the Roman fort and settlement situated in the territory of the village, recovered during archaeological researches from 2004, and 2011-2013. The exhibition entitled „Identity and Culture. Three Topics, Eleven Projects” present the work of the students from the Department of Industrial and Agricultural Building Design of the University of Technology and Economics from Budapest about the possibilities of promoting the Roman limes. The Roman military life will be shown through the displayed mock-ups of the exhibition entitled „The Romans through Gulliver’s Eye”. There will be held presentations focusing on the Roman culture and civilization in general, and especially on the impact of the Roman culture and civilization on Roman Dacia. In the Franciscan church and monastery will also take place thematic guided tours. An exhibition („The book collection of the Franciscan from Călugăreni”) presenting the history of the monastery’s library will be opened. The activities will be ended by a torched parade to the Roman site with the participation of all visitors. During the whole day there will be organized workshops and activities illustrating the life and occupations of the Romans from the Empire’s provinces: making mosaics, pottery, stone-working, Latin writing, theatre, hairdressing, tailoring, social games, Roman cuisine, wine tasting, slave market, sweet-shop etc. The activities and workshops related to the Renaissance monastic milieu will be the followings: the art of writing, paper manufacture, rosary making, blacksmithing etc.
In order to ensure the successful course of this project, the organizers collaborate with the Mayor’s Office of Eremitu, Teleki Library, Roman Limes Research Centre, Artecotur Association, Unitarcoop, Pokoly Association and the project „Roman Limes as European Cultural Landscape”. The main financial support is provided by the Mureș County Council.
Sponsors: Bethlen Gábor Fund, Borpatika, Archaeomoles, Borpatika, Cetate Production.
The event’s main purpose is to promote the archaeological and historical investigations and to offer the chance for the visitors to re-live the past for a day.

How to get to Călugăreni?
Public transportation with minibuses on the following route: Târgu Mureş (Voiajor bus station) – Călugăreni – Câmpu Cetăţii/Sovata and Sovata/Câmpu Cetăţii – Călugăreni – Târgu Mureş.
By car on the following route: Târgu Mureș –Ernei –Călugăreni.
By bicycles on the following routs: Târgu Mureș – Livezeni – Miercurea Nirajului – Vărgata – Călugăreni, or Târgu Mureș – Sângeorgiu de Mureș – Ernei – Căluşeri – Isla – Călugăreni.

10/07/2014NewsBudapest, CEU, international, limes, summer university, theoryadmin

Luminosus Limes

The Luminosus Limes: Geographical, Ethnic, Social and Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity summer university organized by the Central European University (CEU-Budapest) in Budapest, between the 30th of June and the 5th of July 2014 offered a multidisciplinary and theoretical approach concerning the issue of limes as cultural, symbolic and spatial entity from the perspective of archaeology, medieval studies, social and cultural history, art, theology, and literature with the contribution of well-known and famous researchers all around the world. Our team was also represented at this summer school by a colleague. The intensive and high-level lectures and field trips helped our colleague to understand the notion of limes from a multiperspective and more nuanced point of view, which also urge us to enlarge the spectrum of our perception about the phenomenon in the researched area.

22/05/2014News, ProgressCălugăreni, fort, grid, intensive fieldwalking, topography, total station, vicusadmin

Fieldwalking

Between the end of April and beginning of May 2014 a large area of the former Roman auxiliary fort and settlement from Călugăreni (Mureș County) has been surveyed by our team, through an intensive and systematic fieldwalking. More than 14.5 hectares were surveyed with the help of modern methods and instruments: the whole area was divided into grids (25 x 25 m) marked with a total station. A significant quantity of pottery and several small finds (different glass vessel fragments, iron tools, weapons, and instruments, iron and metal slag etc.) have been identified during the intensive fieldwork. Their position in the surveyed area was measured precisely with a high precision GPS instrument. Due to the rigorous surveying methods we managed to identify the boundaries of the vicus around the auxiliary fort from Călugăreni and to locate the most intensively inhabited parts of the settlement.

22/05/2014event, Newscastle, children activity, event, exhibition, Gurghiu, Mureș County Museum, open day, workshopadmin

Open Day at the Gurghiu Castle (Mureș County)

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The Gurghiu Department in collaboration with the Roman Limes Research Centre organised the Open Day event which took place in the Rákóczi–Bornemisza castle from Gurghiu on the 3^rd of May 2014. During this event the rehabilitation project of the Rákóczi–Bornemisza castle has been presented and an exhibition, Identity and culture. Three topics, eleven projects. Thoughts on the heritage of the Roman limes, was accessible for the public. On this occasion special guided tours in the castle and interesting interactive activities for the children were organized as well.

22/05/2014event, Newschildren, event, game, Odorheiu Secuiesc, presentation, Roman, school, wearadmin

School in a different way

Promoting the heritage of the Roman culture, as well as its achievement in the territory of nowadays Romania represents a priority for the education of the future generation. Therefore, the Roman Limes Research Centre organized an educational workshop for pupils from the Bethlen Gábor School from Odorheiu Secuiesc on the occasion of the event Școala altfel / Iskola másként (School in a different way), organized nationwide between the 7^th and the 11^th of April 2014. The educational event in the form of an open day, offers an alternative teaching and learning approach. Our workshop entitled Ancient Rome, offered a very interactive insight into the Roman culture and the everyday life of the soldiers. A short general presentation, about the Roman culture, the army and its impact on our daily life and culture, was held for the pupils. For their own delight, children could dress both like a Roman civilian and soldier, they could play puzzle (made from photos of the Roman forts from Mureș County) and Roman board games, paint colouring pages.

22/05/2014Newsevent, Night of Museums, Palace of Culture, perfume, Roman, Târgu-Mureș, workshopadmin

Scented Palace, Enchanted Visitors: Ars Unguentaria

The Ars Unguentaria workshop organized by the RLRC and the Gurghiu Department of the Mures County Museum with the occasion of the European Night of the Museums benefited from a huge interest from the public and was a real success with more then 4000 visitors. The event, which evoked the famous Via Piperatica market from Rome, offered the public an interactive insight into the ancient make-up and body care techniques, fragrances and hairdo fashion etc. The visitors were received at the entrance by a Roman patrician who showed them the way to the famous market. Making small fragrance sacks, similar to those worn around the neck by the Romans in order to exclude bad smells, was one of the most successful activities of the workshop. Both children and adults were excited to create their own, individual fragrance sacks. Guessing the ancient herbs, spices or fragrances hidden in blank sacks was another popular activity. Visitors could also smell and inspect the common and exotic spices used by the Romans and they had the possibility of smelling and trying a series of perfumes and creams created by the organizers according to the ancient receipts. The colourful and perfumed workshop enchanted and refreshed not only the Small Hall from the Palace of Culture, but both children and adults, as well as the young and old generation.

20/05/2014Newsadmin

ETDK

Promoting the Dacian eastern limes sector with all its aspects (daily life, military life) is considered by The Digitizing the Roman Limes project one of its main targets. Thus, encouraging future researcher generation by implying them in a multidisciplinary project like ours is also a very important aspect of the grant. Dorottya Nyulas, a student from the 3^rd year of studies on Archaeology, specialized in Roman iron tools, was credited to analyze the Roman iron objects recovered from the Roman fort from Brâncovenești. Her paper entitled The analyze of the complete iron material from Brâncovenești, won the first prize at the 17^th Transylvanian Students’ Scientific Conference, the most prestigious national student conference, held in Cluj-Napoca, between the 15^th and 18^th of May 2014. Our project team was also involved in the scientific evaluation of student papers since one project member was one of the judges from the conference jury.

Congratulations!

14/05/2014Newsadmin

Ars Unguentaria Workshop

The Gurghiu Department and the Roman Limes Research Centre of the Mureş County Museum is kindly inviting you to the Ars unguentaria workshop on the 17^th of May 2014.

Opening hours at the Palace of Culture from Târgu Mureş: 13:00-02:00

Ars unguentaria is an event organized by Mureș County Museum with the occasion of the Night of the Museums. The visitors will have the possibility of experiencing the atmosphere of Via Piperatica, the greatest spice market of ancient Rome, in an ambient recreated with this occasion in the Small Hall of the Palace of Culture from Târgu Mureș. The activities will focus on three main aspects: an exhibition area dedicated to body care during Roman times, which will present the main categories of artefacts used for cleaning the body, and two interactive workshops dedicated to the production on the spot of different creams and perfumes popular during the period, based on original recipes. During the process, replicas of original ceramic, glass and bone utensils will be used and the visitors will be able to test the different flavours and perfumes. The interactive workshops will be accompanied by information regarding the popular spices of the time, the Roman spice trade with the Orient, as well as the perception of luxury in the Roman society.

25/03/2014Newsadmin

Spring Wind Conference

A conference entitled Spring Wind Conference (Tavaszi Szél Konferencia) has been organized by the National Association of PhD Students (Doktoranduszok Országos Szövetsége – DOSZ) in Debrecen, Hungary on the 21st and 23rd March 2014. The respective conference is the main platform for PhD students for presententing and promoting their researches and projects. Our colleague took also part to this meeting and held a presentation about the typology and epigraphic analysis of a ceramic plate with graffito.

19/02/2014Newsadmin

Exhibition on the Subject of Identity and Culture – the Heritage of the Roman Limes

The exhibition “Identity and culture. Three topics, eleven projects. Thoughts on the heritage of the Roman limes” will be opened on Tuesday, 4^th of March, 5 pm, at the Museum of Ethnography and Folk Art from Târgu Mureș (Trandafirilor Square, no. 11). The opening will be accompanied by speeches given by Zoltán Soós, director of the Mureș County Museum, Zsolt Vasáros, vice dean, and Cicelle Gaul, lecturer, as well as Ferenc Szélyes, the president of the Barn Theatre Association, Călugăreni.

The exhibition is based on the results obtained by the students and teachers from the Department of Industrial and Agricultural Building Design of the University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, who participated at the summer school organized at Sovata, in the summer of 2013, in the frame of an international project (RLRC – Erasmus IP).

The students had the opportunity of presenting the results of their research at the Students’ Conference organized last year by the University of Budapest. According to the regulation, they had the possibility to propose projects on one of the following three topics:

1. The placement of a pavilion near the ruins of the Roman watchtower from Ibănești, which could represent, in the same time, a reference point in the landscape.

2. The development of an archaeological research centre together with multifunctional exhibition areas using the buildings already existing in Călugăreni.

3. The design of provisional pavilions used for presenting the Roman ruins discovered at Călugăreni.

27 students took part at the conference and they presented 11 projects, each of them coordinated by a teacher. The jury, composed of architects, archaeologists and experts on heritage protection, awarded 5 main prizes and 4 special ones.

The projects will be presented for the first time in Târgu Mureș, as part of the exhibition organized by the Roman Limes Research Centre from Mureș County Museum, which can be visited between the 4^th and 30^th of March 2014.

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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