Rada Varga
Biographic Data
| ID | 5633016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rada Varga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rada |
| FAMILY NAME | Varga |
| SIGNATURE | VARGA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Babeș-Bolyai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3291-5793 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Graph based modelling of prosopographical datasets. Case study
In this paper, we present and discuss a promising research avenue, that is the use of graph-based models and software for prosopographical data sets. Our case study will be constituted by Romans 1by1 (http://romans1by1.com/), a digital-born prosopography focusing on people attested in classical era inscriptions; it presently hosts approximately 18,000 open access persons files. The project aimed at employing new techniques and methodologies that …
Pottery Vessels with graffiti Discovered in the Fort of Ala I Batavorum in Dacia
This paper presents graffiti discovered on a few plates discovered in a barrack from the fort of ala I Batavorum milliaria in Dacia. Typical for the Batavian troops, the onomastics is Latin and Greek. The instrumenta prove that the soldiers scribbled their names on every-day use vessels and offer us a glimpse of the very men that lived there together
Military and Ethnic Identity Through Pottery
Natives of the Low Rhine region, the Batavi were a community of ethnic soldiers engaged in a treaty with Rome, overseeing a heavy supply of men to the Roman auxiliary units. The present article examines the pottery discovered at and retrieved from three sites associated with Batavian auxilia : Războieni, Adony, and Romita. Their status as military sites shaped around the consumption habits of Batavian auxiliary troops makes them comparable. The c…
Arcgis for Mapping Veteran’s Settlements in the Province of Upper Moesia
This article is about mapping the veterans’ inscriptions from Upper Moesia using ArcGIS software. How can this be done and toward what aims? By applying GIS algorithms to these datasets, we can make various maps and queries that allow us to discuss distribution and spatiality from many different angles. Such an experiment provided us the possibility of a better visualization of data in geographic context and allowed us to identify the specific lo…
Negotiator Allecarius
The current investigation focuses on the rare epigraphic attestations of negotiatorii allecarii. Trying to distinguish why this occupational title is attested only in the context of Germania Inferior, we analyze the etymology of the word and its evolution into late antique and medieval Latin, the specificities of the allec trade, and the merchants’ attestations within the context of the region’s and the province’s occupational epigraphy. The conc…
The Nature of Roman Dominion Over the Province of Dacia Notes on the Romanization Phenomenon and Its Limits
The current paper presents the main lines of an investigation into the Romanization/Latinization of Dacia. The issues are mainly addressed from a social history point of view. What we have tried to find out is if talking about assimilation, acculturation and integration in the case of Dacia is really in accordance with what the realities of the province show us. These ‘realities’ that we took into consideration are the reflection of society in ep…
Networks and Ties. The Economical Power Holders of Alburnus Maior
Alburnus Maior is one of the best-documented and most interesting Roman provincial rural societies. It provided historians with a most complex source: the wax tablets, representing contracts and other juridical documents, hid in a mine gallery when tragedy struck (the Marcomannic attack of 168 AD) and never recovered by their owners. In the current article, based on micro-historical information offered by these unique sources, we will present an …
Paying and Saving in Gold in the Roman Army the Aureus of Vespasian From Războieni-Cetate and the Evidence of Gold Coins in Roman Dacia (Romania)
Starting from a recently discovered gold coin, aureus , of Vespasian in the military environment of Războieni-Cetate, Romania (in former Roman Dacia), the present study gathered the evidence of similar finds from the territory of former Roman Dacia. A comparative analysis with the evidence from well-documented sites from other Roman provinces (e.g. Britannia ) and from ancient literary sources may lead to the conclusion that the military payments…
L. Mihailescu-Bîrliba, Rure Vivere in Moesia Inferiore. La Population Dans Le Milieu Rural D’une Province Péripherique De L’empire Romain
The present submission is a review of L. Mihailescu-Bîrliba’s book on the rural areas of Moesia Inferior. The book is an exhaustive and comprehensive overview of the population attested in here during the Roman period. Besides putting together all sources on this matter, it offers an analytic insight into the social, economic and cultural realities of the province’s rural inhabitants
The Reflection of Personal and Collective Tragedies in Ancient Sources. 2.collective Tragedies in Roman Epigraphy
The present research, though a stand-alone from many points of view, is the second part of our enterprise dealing with the reflection of individual and collective tragedy in Roman epigraphy. While the first part took into consideration individual tragedies, with death occurred by the hand of latrones, bandits or pirates, the current investigation is focused on what we have defined as traces of collective tragedies. By collective tragedies we unde…
A Quantitative Approach on Latin Occupational Epigraphy
The current article is a catalogue-centered quantitative research concerning the occupational inscriptions of the Roman Latin West. The focus of the investigation were independent professionals – not linked directly to the state administration or the army – who have their profession explicitly recorded on a stone monument. The catalogue lists 691 individuals and links towards their detailed personal files; while exhaustiveness is a goal hard to a…
Social Interactions and Status Markers in the Roman World
The Reflection of Personal and Collective Tragedies in Ancient Sources 1. Personal Tragedies in Roman Epigraphy
The present paper is the first part of a series of articles dedicated to the concept of tragedy in the Roman Empire. While the first article will focus on personal tragedies, as seen through the epigraphic attestations of violence, the second article will focus on collective tragedies, bringing together, and matching both the epigraphic evidence and the literary sources, in an attempt to reconstruct, through the lenses of the Empire’s population,…
Toy Fragments Discovered in Northern Vicus of Războieni-Cetate (Alba County)
The current paper presents a few Roman toys discovered at Războieni-Cetate; more precisely, we are dealing with two Risi statuettes and fragments from three pull toys. The artefacts were found in civilian, presumably domestic, contexts in the northern part of the vicus and most probably are products of local officinae
Official Power and Local Elites in the Roman Provinces
Two inscriptions from Sarmizegetusa revisited
The current work deals with two funerary inscriptions from Sarmizegetusa and the identity of their dedicator. Based on text details, as well as on stylistic and functional characteristics of the monuments, we got to the conclusion that the dedicator of the two epitaphs is the same person: Herculanus, imperial verna and adiutor tabularii in the capital of Dacia
Official Power and Local Elites in the Roman Provinces
Toy Fragments Discovered in Northern Vicus of Războieni-Cetate (Alba County)
The current paper presents a few Roman toys discovered at Războieni-Cetate; more precisely, we are dealing with two Risi statuettes and fragments from three pull toys. The artefacts were found in civilian, presumably domestic, contexts in the northern part of the vicus and most probably are products of local officinae
Two inscriptions from Sarmizegetusa revisited
The current work deals with two funerary inscriptions from Sarmizegetusa and the identity of their dedicator. Based on text details, as well as on stylistic and functional characteristics of the monuments, we got to the conclusion that the dedicator of the two epitaphs is the same person: Herculanus, imperial verna and adiutor tabularii in the capital of Dacia
Official Power and Local Elites in the Roman Provinces
Toy Fragments Discovered in Northern Vicus of Războieni-Cetate (Alba County)
The current paper presents a few Roman toys discovered at Războieni-Cetate; more precisely, we are dealing with two Risi statuettes and fragments from three pull toys. The artefacts were found in civilian, presumably domestic, contexts in the northern part of the vicus and most probably are products of local officinae
Social Interactions and Status Markers in the Roman World
The Reflection of Personal and Collective Tragedies in Ancient Sources 1. Personal Tragedies in Roman Epigraphy
The present paper is the first part of a series of articles dedicated to the concept of tragedy in the Roman Empire. While the first article will focus on personal tragedies, as seen through the epigraphic attestations of violence, the second article will focus on collective tragedies, bringing together, and matching both the epigraphic evidence and the literary sources, in an attempt to reconstruct, through the lenses of the Empire’s population,…
L. Mihailescu-Bîrliba, Rure Vivere in Moesia Inferiore. La Population Dans Le Milieu Rural D’une Province Péripherique De L’empire Romain
The present submission is a review of L. Mihailescu-Bîrliba’s book on the rural areas of Moesia Inferior. The book is an exhaustive and comprehensive overview of the population attested in here during the Roman period. Besides putting together all sources on this matter, it offers an analytic insight into the social, economic and cultural realities of the province’s rural inhabitants
The Reflection of Personal and Collective Tragedies in Ancient Sources. 2.collective Tragedies in Roman Epigraphy
The present research, though a stand-alone from many points of view, is the second part of our enterprise dealing with the reflection of individual and collective tragedy in Roman epigraphy. While the first part took into consideration individual tragedies, with death occurred by the hand of latrones, bandits or pirates, the current investigation is focused on what we have defined as traces of collective tragedies. By collective tragedies we unde…
A Quantitative Approach on Latin Occupational Epigraphy
The current article is a catalogue-centered quantitative research concerning the occupational inscriptions of the Roman Latin West. The focus of the investigation were independent professionals – not linked directly to the state administration or the army – who have their profession explicitly recorded on a stone monument. The catalogue lists 691 individuals and links towards their detailed personal files; while exhaustiveness is a goal hard to a…
Networks and Ties. The Economical Power Holders of Alburnus Maior
Alburnus Maior is one of the best-documented and most interesting Roman provincial rural societies. It provided historians with a most complex source: the wax tablets, representing contracts and other juridical documents, hid in a mine gallery when tragedy struck (the Marcomannic attack of 168 AD) and never recovered by their owners. In the current article, based on micro-historical information offered by these unique sources, we will present an …
Paying and Saving in Gold in the Roman Army the Aureus of Vespasian From Războieni-Cetate and the Evidence of Gold Coins in Roman Dacia (Romania)
Starting from a recently discovered gold coin, aureus , of Vespasian in the military environment of Războieni-Cetate, Romania (in former Roman Dacia), the present study gathered the evidence of similar finds from the territory of former Roman Dacia. A comparative analysis with the evidence from well-documented sites from other Roman provinces (e.g. Britannia ) and from ancient literary sources may lead to the conclusion that the military payments…
The Nature of Roman Dominion Over the Province of Dacia Notes on the Romanization Phenomenon and Its Limits
The current paper presents the main lines of an investigation into the Romanization/Latinization of Dacia. The issues are mainly addressed from a social history point of view. What we have tried to find out is if talking about assimilation, acculturation and integration in the case of Dacia is really in accordance with what the realities of the province show us. These ‘realities’ that we took into consideration are the reflection of society in ep…
Arcgis for Mapping Veteran’s Settlements in the Province of Upper Moesia
This article is about mapping the veterans’ inscriptions from Upper Moesia using ArcGIS software. How can this be done and toward what aims? By applying GIS algorithms to these datasets, we can make various maps and queries that allow us to discuss distribution and spatiality from many different angles. Such an experiment provided us the possibility of a better visualization of data in geographic context and allowed us to identify the specific lo…
Negotiator Allecarius
The current investigation focuses on the rare epigraphic attestations of negotiatorii allecarii. Trying to distinguish why this occupational title is attested only in the context of Germania Inferior, we analyze the etymology of the word and its evolution into late antique and medieval Latin, the specificities of the allec trade, and the merchants’ attestations within the context of the region’s and the province’s occupational epigraphy. The conc…
Graph based modelling of prosopographical datasets. Case study
In this paper, we present and discuss a promising research avenue, that is the use of graph-based models and software for prosopographical data sets. Our case study will be constituted by Romans 1by1 (http://romans1by1.com/), a digital-born prosopography focusing on people attested in classical era inscriptions; it presently hosts approximately 18,000 open access persons files. The project aimed at employing new techniques and methodologies that …
Pottery Vessels with graffiti Discovered in the Fort of Ala I Batavorum in Dacia
This paper presents graffiti discovered on a few plates discovered in a barrack from the fort of ala I Batavorum milliaria in Dacia. Typical for the Batavian troops, the onomastics is Latin and Greek. The instrumenta prove that the soldiers scribbled their names on every-day use vessels and offer us a glimpse of the very men that lived there together
Military and Ethnic Identity Through Pottery
Natives of the Low Rhine region, the Batavi were a community of ethnic soldiers engaged in a treaty with Rome, overseeing a heavy supply of men to the Roman auxiliary units. The present article examines the pottery discovered at and retrieved from three sites associated with Batavian auxilia : Războieni, Adony, and Romita. Their status as military sites shaped around the consumption habits of Batavian auxiliary troops makes them comparable. The c…
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