Cette étude reprend la question épineuse de la localisation et du statut de Malva (colonia Malvensis), qui a donné, après la réorganisation du temps des guerres marcomanniques, le nom d’une subdivision de la Dacie romaine, à savoir la Dacia Malvensis, superposant la Dacie Inférieure. Rejetant l’identification traditionnelle de Malva à Romula, à partir du réexamen du dossier épigraphique concernant Malva (y compris les termes Malvensis et Malvenses), des découvertes archéologiques sur la ligne de l’Olt, et en particulier de l’itinéraire Drobeta–Romula–Apulum sur la Table de Peutinger, on propose une localisation de ce centre sans doute militaire à Stolniceni (dép. de Vâlcea), où était communément placée Buridava.

Dans cette étude, nous prenons en compte les stèles et les parois d’édicules comportant l’image du banquet funéraire découverts sur le territoire de l’ancienne province de Dacie. Bien que la scène soit symbolique, les détails présents reflètent, en certains cas, les gestes du quotidien. Les personnages – défunts, membres de la famille ou servants – sont habillés comme le sont d’habitude les provinciaux de ces régions. Les vêtements et les accessoires, même la coiffure, reproduisent la mode locale. Le mobilier funéraire (la kliné, la cathedra, la mensa tripes) et les vases de toutes sortes, bien que stéréotypés, ont des analogies dans l’inventaire fourni par l’archéologie du quotidien de la province nord-danubienne. En ce qui concerne la nourriture, les clichés sont plus prononcés, les participants aux banquets de Dacie mangeant du pain (panis quadratus), des poissons et des fruits. Le but de notre analyse est de souligner les realia provinciales à partir de la scène du banquet funéraire. Au-delà des clichés iconographiques et du caractère stéréotypé des modèles, intrinsèques à l’art provincial, on peut entrevoir l’intention de reproduire le quotidien (certains vêtements typiques du milieu militaire de Dacie, la coiffure dite « illyrienne », le turban du Norique, la touloupe, etc.). La comparaison avec d’autres catégories de monuments sculptés et avec les artefacts (en premier lieu, les vases) permettra d’établir le répertoire des spécificités de la région danubienne et, plus particulièrement, de Dacie.

The study and the protection of Cultural Heritage in recent years have undergone a revolution about the search tools and the reference disciplines. The technological approach to the problem of the collection, organization and publication of archaeological data using GIS software has completely changed the essence of the traditional methods of investigation, paving the way to the development of several application areas, up to the Cultural Resource Management. A relatively recent specific sector of development for archaeological GIS development sector is dedicated to the intra - site analyses aimed to recording, processing and display information obtained during the excavations. The case - study of the archaeological site located in the south - east of San Pietro Vetere plateau in Aquino, in the Southern Lazio, is concerned with the illustration of a procedure describing the complete digital workflow relative to an intra-site analysis of an archaeological dig. The GIS project implementation and its publication on the web, thanks to several softwares, particularly the FOSS (Free Open Source Software) Quantum - GIS, are an opportunity to reflect on the strengths and the critical nature of this particular application of the GIS technology. For future developments in research it is of fundamental importance the identification of a digital protocol for processing of excavations (from the acquisition, cataloguing, up data insertion), also on account of a possible future <i>Open Project</i> on medieval Aquino.

In this paper I shall only discuss a few of the problems of archaeology in Romania from the perspective of my one-year experience as member and vice-president of the National Commission of Archaeology. My goal here is to attempt to systematize the discussions during the meetings and round tables of the year that has just passed. The meetings were held in Bucharest, in the building of the Ministry of Culture, and some, in Cluj-Napoca, Caransebeș, and Iași. The meetings of the commission were completed with three round tables meant to facilitate dialogue with the local communities interested in patrimony issues Thus, I shall speak of the manner in which archaeology is publicly perceived and the manner in which the National Commission of Archaeology is perceived inside the community of archaeologists.

The paper tackles with the inscription from Potaissa (ILD I 499) which have risen an entire discussion about the presence of the legion VII Gemina at Potaissa, in the context in which the stamps of this legion are known in large numbers from the fortress of Porolissum. Only P. Le Roux struck a discordant note, reading in line 2 the name of the legion VII Claudia. In the storage space of the Turda History Museum there is additional evidence of the presence of a vexillation of the Legio VII Claudia in the fortress of Potaissa. These are two lydion bricks with this legion's stamp (MIT inv. nos. 327, 884). The second lydion brick, fragmentary, comes from investigations in the fortress carried out by I. Țigăra in 1950-1952, in the same area where the altar ILD I 499 was discovered. Thanks to the epithets pia constans and the use of the term commanipulares we consider that the inscription from Potaissa ILD I 499 must be dated at the earliest at the time of Caracalla A possible moment would be at the beginning of Caracalla's eastern expeditio, probably in the first half of 214 when he inspected the fortresses and forts on the Danube.