Biertan Donarium

Made out of bronze in the shape of a Labarum, it has the Latin text EGO ZENOVIVS VOTVM POSVI, which can be approximately translated as "I, Zenovius, offered this gift".

It was found in 1775 in the Chinedru forest, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Biertan and it was part of the collections of Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, nowadays being part of the exhibits of the Brukenthal National Museum.

[5] According to them this object was made in Aquileia in Northern Italy during the 4th century[6][7] and it was carried into Transylvania as a loot by Gothic warriors or by trading.

[8] It is the most possible that the find from Biertan is a result of plundering in Illyricum or Pannonia or in the Balkans anytime between the fourth and the sixth century and this artifact was reused as a pagan object by its new owners.

)[11] Originally it was intended to be hung from a candelabrum but the perforations made later indicate it was reused and attached to a coffer for storing vessels or other goods.