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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.

31/03/2015Newsadmin

Fieldwalking reloaded

In the middle of March 2015 an intensive archaeological fieldwalking and survey have been launched again. We started our 2015 season of field survey with the identification of a Roman vallum in Câmpu Cetății which was supposed to be situated between the Vf. Scroafa and Cața de Jos hill. In Călugăreni we began a more intensive fieldwalking on a much more extended area. The intensive field survey from here carried out within a grid-system measured and staked out with the help of precise topographic devices (total station, GPS) is focusing mainly on the area of the former Roman military fort and vicus. Each grid is surveyed by a team consisted of five people with the latest surveying methods. All the finds within a grid are collected and the position of each small-find recovered is precisely measured with a GPS device of high performance.

23/03/2015Newsadmin

Geophysical survey at Călugăreni and Sărățeni

Between the 7^thand 15^th of March an extended geophysical survey was made by students and professors from the Geophysics Department of the Eötvös Lóránd University. The team was split into two: while one part was concentrated on the surrounding area of the Roman fort from Călugăreni, the other group effectuated mesurements along the walls of the Roman fort from Sărățeni.

Even though the early spring was from windy to very hot, the team managed to survey many hectares in Călugăreni, spotting out a new part of the vicus. The measurements from Sărățeni were also resultful, accomplished by dozens of electro-magnetic sections which gave a more accurate picture of the direction of the walls and indicated the existence of other structures as well. It was an efficient week which opened new perspectives for the further investigations.

05/03/2015Newsadmin

Excursion to the Roman baths on the eastern limes

In the first week of March, members of our team decided to make a trip to the places where once stood the Roman bath houses in the vicinities of Roman forts along the eastern limes. Bath houses were one of the most popular and probably most noisy establishments where people could combine the pleasure of becoming clean and eventually getting a massage with socializing and gossiping with other people. Seneca in the Epistulae Morales describes his experiences as a person who lives right over a public bath house: “Beshrew me if I think anything more requisite than silence for a man who secludes himself in order to study! Imagine what a variety of noises reverberates about my ears! I have lodgings right over a bathing establishment. So picture to yourself the assortment of sounds, which are strong enough to make me hate my very powers of hearing! When your strenuous gentleman, for example, is exercising himself by flourishing leaden weights; when he is working hard, or else pretends to be working hard, I can hear him grunt; and whenever he releases his imprisoned breath, I can hear him panting in wheezy and high-pitched tones. Or perhaps I notice some lazy fellow, content with a cheap rubdown, and hear the crack of the pummelling hand on his shoulder, varying in sound according as the hand is laid on flat or hollow. Then, perhaps, a professionalcomes along, shouting out the score; that is the finishing touch.”(Seneca, Epistulae Morales 56/1,2.)

Our excursion was much more of a quiet walk, amplified by our conversations about the information we held about Roman baths, and the barking of dogs from the end of the villages. Even though the baths are researched, the only still preserved, who have experienced the livelyhood of the place are the walls, the tegulae and other finds. Therefore, we can mostly count on them to tell the story which we will hopefully understand.