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The article presents a number of 25 fragments of pottery discovered at Noviodunum–Isaccea from turibula, ceramic category related to the presence of Roman troops. It was probably used for religious purposes in a military cult. This ceramic is cone, or deep cup- shaped. Its rim flared and bordered in two parts is decorated with rows of impressions made with a toothed wheel or with a sharp-pointed tool. The defining decoration piece of this ceramic category are the pockets made by squeezing between the fingers of the two rip ends, when modelling, which gives the upper edge a wavy appearance. The ceramic fragments discovered at Noviodunum belong to the medium-sized type, having a diameter between 18 and 26 cm and showing no traces of secondary burning to the inside, which proves that the vessels were not used as smoke pots. We believe that these fragments come from a ceramic workshop, yet undiscovered, situated in the civil settlement of the borough. Specimens have analogues in Troesmis, Niculiţel and Capaclia, dated 2nd century AD, except for a fragment similar to those discovered at Alburnus Maior, dated the second and third centuries AD.

The article presents a number of 25 fragments of pottery discovered at Noviodunum-Isaccea from turibula, ceramic category related to the presence of Roman troops. It was probably used for religious purposes in a military cult. This ceramic is cone, or deep cup-shaped. Its rim flared and bordered in two parts is decorated with rows of impressions made with a toothed wheel or with a sharp-pointed tool. The defining decoration piece of this ceramic category are the pockets made by squeezing between the fingers of the two rip ends, when modelling, which gives the upper edge a wavy appearance. The ceramic fragments discovered at Noviodunum belong to the medium-sized type, having a diameter between 18 and 26 cm and showing no traces of secondary burning to the inside, which proves that the vessels were not used as smoke pots. We believe that these fragments come from a ceramic workshop, yet undiscovered, situated in the civil settlement of the borough. Specimens have analogues in Troesmis, Niculitel and Capaclia, dated 2nd century AD, except for a fragment similar to those discovered at Alburnus Maior, dated the second and third centuries AD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]