Editing Dacians (section)

===Pottery===
[[File:Poiana vase.jpg|left|thumb|Fragment of a vase collected by [[Mihail Dimitriu]] at the site of [[Poiana, Galaţi]] ([[Piroboridava]]), [[Romania]] illustrating the use of Greek and Latin letters by a Dacian potter (source: [[Dacia (journal)|Dacia journal]], 1933)]]

Fragments of pottery with different "inscriptions" with Latin and Greek letters incised before and after firing have been discovered in the settlement at Ocnita – Valcea.{{sfn | Glodariu | 1976 | p=128 }} An inscription carries the word Basileus (Βασιλεύς in Greek, meaning "king") and seems to have been written before the vessel was hardened by fire.{{sfn | MacKenzie| 1986 | p=67}} Other inscriptions contain the name of the king, believed to be Thiemarcus,{{sfn | MacKenzie| 1986 | p=67}} and Latin groups of letters (BVR, REB).{{sfn | MacKenzie| 1986 | p=26 }} BVR indicates the name of the tribe or union of tribes, the Buridavensi Dacians who lived at Buridava and who were mentioned by Ptolemy in the second century AD under the name of Buridavensioi.{{sfn | MacKenzie| 1986 | p=66 }}