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Irina Adriana Achim et al., « Un reliquaire inédit dans les collections du Musée d’Histoire Nationale et d’Archéologie de Constanța / An unpublished reliquary from the collections of the National Museum of History and Archaeology from Constanţa », Materiale şi cercetări arheologice, ID : 10.3406/mcarh.2016.1028
From the perspective of the available archaeological and written sources, Tomis – the administrative and religious capital of the province of Scythia - represented an urban space where the cult of relics flourished during the Late Antiquity. The numerous Christian cult edifices existing in Tomis and, consequently the diversity of the relic-worshipping devices, created a context that allows us to draw a series of conclusions on the devotional manifestations and the diversity of solutions for exhibiting these holy remains. In the panorama of the Christian religious life in Scythia’s capital, the chance discovery of a marble reliquary near the Tăbăcăriei Lake during the second half of the 20th c., constitutes a fortunate exception. The authors’ presentation exploits this approach and discusses the discovery context, the iconography and the reliquary’s possible dating.