Ok- our last day in the mountains friday and my dad wanted to see this 13th century church, supposedly the oldest one in romania ( he's a real history buff, no really). i acquiesced since we had done all my dacian digging for the week. Little did we know we would find parts of Ulpia Traiana at this little church called Densusi. Click here for more info:
http://www.romanianmonasteries.org/other-monasteries/densus
Apparently this little patch of christianity needed "aesthetic and physical support," as it was falling down sometime at the beginning of the 20th century so they creatively reused columns and funerary stones from the roman city. My thought cells tinkered as I have actually learned about spoliation in my medieval and intro art classes ( yes! duke education pays off) - so was really excited to see a "live specimen." you have to be an art major to be happy when you run into stuff like this i think.
Densus church and dad thoroughly documenting the stones .
The entrance way was paved with column bases.
Paganism supporting Christianity...literally.
More decoration - this was next to the courtyard. if you look at the design, i found the exact pattern in Sarmisegetuza.
And more...
Umm.. this seemed important since it has something like imperator and maxim pontifus on it. which means it refers to the emperor
Local flavor. this is actually the house of the Priest in charge of this nice little place. He wouldn't be photographed or let us take pictures inside...sigh... but he told us how the church was ravaged by the turks and the protestants. And, more related to my thesis he mentioned that the orthodox and the catholics used to worship together in this church during communism but then the catholic brothers turned their eyes to the west and abandoned the good cause.
My favorite re-use of a column!
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