Silvia Mustaţă, The Roman Metal Vessels from Dacia Porolissensis. Patrimonium Archaeologicum Transylvanicum 12. Mega Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca 2017. ISBN 978-606-543-843-9. 374 pages with 26 figures, four graphs, and 106 plates.

International audienceSilvia Mustaţă's book is the publication of her doctoral research on metal vessels from the Roman province of Dacia Porolissensis, carried out at the University Babeș Bolyai (UBB) of Cluj-Napoca (RO), under the supervision of Nicolae Gudae. The publication is clearly structured and elegantly laid out. The writing is clear, and the effort involved in translating this thesis, originally written in Romanian, into English is commendable, making it accessible to a wider audience. Mustaţă shows a perfect mastery of her subject and, in addition to the present work, she has published as the coauthor or principal author of several articles dealing with the metallic vessels of Roman Dacia (e. g. S. Mustaţă, The Roman anthropomorphic bronze vessel from Strâmba (Turceni, Gorj county). Typological, functional and chronological aspects. Oltenia 17, 2010, 51-56; S. Mustaţă, Roman bronze appliqués with half-pierced loop. Semi-finished or final products? Ephemeris Napocensis 20, 2010, 191-204 ; S. Mustaţă, Remarks on the use and misuse of latin terms in the study of Roman bronze vessels. In: C. Cosma (ed.), Studii de arheologie și istorie. Omagiu profesorului Nicolae Gudea la 70 de ani. Studies in Archaeology and History. An Anniversary Volume to Professor Nicolae Gudea on his 70 th Birthday. Interferențe etnice și culturale în mileniile I a. Chr.-I p. Chr. 20 [Cluj-Napoca 2011] 233-239). Additionally, some chapters or sub-parts of this book have already been published as articles (I.3; II.2.2.3 partly; III.11.4; III.12.1; IV.3)