„This volume was published within the framework of LIMES National Reserch Programe, sup‑ported by the Romanian Ministry of Culture and National Identity. Therefore we would like to thank our friends and colleagues Ovidiu Țentea and Felix Marcu for their support in publishing this work. Special thanks go to: Constantin Băjenaru (MINAC); Sebastian Corneanu (Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu); Mihai Duca (Bucharest); + Arch. Cătălin Georgescu (Bucharest); Iulia Iliescu (University of Bucharest); Marian Mocanu (ICEM, Tulcea); Andrei Opaiț (Toronto); Dorel Paraschiv (ICEM, Tulcea); Prof. Constantin C. Petolescu (Bucharest); Mihai Popescu (CNRS, Paris); Raluca Popescu (Muzeul Municipiului București, Bucharest); Tiberiu Potârniche (MINAC); Arch. Anișoara Sion (Bucharest); Gabriel Stoian (Bucharest); Valeriu Toma (Bucharest); Mihai Vasile (MNIR Bucharest); Dan Vasilescu (MINAC); Florica Zaharia (former Conservator in Charge of the Department of Textile Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art). For the topographic measurements, we owe thanks to Mihai Florea (MNIR Bucharest); some of the draw‑ings have been made by Jeni Efimov (ICEM, Tulcea), Cătălina Petolescu (Bucharest) and Ingrid Petcu (MINAC).” (from Acknowledgments)

„Lately, the capital of Roman Dacia, Apulum, has become a Roman archaeological objective researched thoroughly by an impressive number of rescue excavations, which pointed out an important number of private complexes, either military or funerary. Within this context, reevalu‑ation of the whole heritage preserved in the collection of the museum was, and became a manda‑tory need to integrate discoveries and to present them appropriately to know those of funerary character, mainly.This archaeological monograph proposed by George Bounegru represents analysis of sampled funerary discoveries resulted from the northern necropolis from Apulum. The samples of 161 graves predominantly represent personal researches included in the doctoral thesis of the author, as well as more rescue excavations carried out by Gheorghe Anghel, Ioan Alexandru Aldea, Cloșca L. Băluță, Radu Ciobanu, Vasile Moga, Alexandru Popa within this necropolis. Archaeologists did us the courtesy of giving the archaeological material resulted from their own researches.” ( from Foreword)

„Imnele care împodobesc slujbele Bisericii Ortodoxe sunt creaţii ale unor Sfinţi Părinţi ai Bisericii, cei mai mulţi trăitori în partea bizantină a primului mileniu al creştinătăţii încă nedivizate. După un alt mileniu de istorie zbuciumată a Bisericii, până astăzi, imnele marilor colecţii liturgice ca Octoihul, Triodul, Penticostarul şi Mineiele păstrează nealterată amintirea unei perioade esenţiale pentru structurarea învăţăturii de credinţă. Este perioada Sinoadelor Ecumenice, a marilor personalităţi care au ilustrat secolele patristice şi care au lăsat o perenă creaţie, atât de expresie mai teoretică, dar şi imnografică.” Vasile Grăjdian

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