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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20CATHOLICA - Issue no. 3 / 2010  
         
  Article:   A NEW POSSIBILITY FOR INTERPRETING THE INSCRIPTION ON THE RING NR. 3, PART OF THE TREASURE FROM APAHIDA (CLUJ) / VORSCHLAG FÜR EINE NEUE LESUNG DER INSCHRIFT OMHARVG AUF DEM RING NR. 3 AUS DEM GRAB NR. 1 VON APAHIDA (KLAUSENBURG/CLUJ; RUMÄNIEN).

Authors:  NICOLAE GUDEA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  A new possibility for interpreting the inscription on the ring nr. 3, part of the treasure from Apahida (Cluj). In the year 1889 a Gepid grave was accidentally discovered at Apahida (a village near Cluj-Napoca), containing an important ritual grave furnishing of gold items. (Abb 4–9). Ancient texts and archaeological discoveries reveal that after the battle from 454 the Gepidae partially or wholly retreated from the Tisa plain to Transilvania (the ancient Dacia). (Abb 1–3). From the time of its first publication the text from the ring nr. 3 has been known as OMHARVS, being interpreted as a name given to a king or a prince or to a high ranked personality in the Gepid society. But neither history nor archaeology or German lingvistic has so far confirmed the existence of such a personality, or the German character of the name, respectively. The contradictory opinions concerning the text as well as the lack of resolved analogies (Abb 10–11) determined the author (N. Gudea) to tackle the text from another point of view.

Keywords: Gepiden, Apahida, Transylvania, grave, funeral deposition, weddings ring 		 
         
     
         
         
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