Stamps of the Legio V Macedonica from Potaissa. The old collections of the Turda History Museum

Abstract

The tegular material produced by the Fifth Macedonian Legion during its stationing at Potaissa (Turda, Cluj County) is stamped with a wide variety of signacula containing the name of the legion in abbreviated form. In order to establish the complete repertory of signacula and to verify the old typologies we have taken up the old finds that have entered into the collections of the Turda History Museum before the beginning of the systematic excavations in the fortress of the Fifth Macedonian Legion in 1971. We are thus able to identify some of the stamps previously located in the István Téglás collection, but also a series of stamps resulting from Ioan Țigăra’s investigations in Turda and its surroundings or acquired by the Turda Museum from various private individuals. In the following, we want to present them as archaeological artifacts, integrating them into the already created typology and emphasizing the importance of new variants.