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In his 2003 critique of the claimed Rohonczi Codex decipherment, Ungureanu foregrounds material chronology: the paper watermark dates the physical support to northern Italy around 1529–1540, incompatible with an 11th–12th-century manuscript claim.

Evidence: He cites the watermark dating and contrasts it with the proposed medieval chronology.

Inference: Physical provenance can falsify a historical-linguistic narrative before decipherment claims are entertained.

source_criticism · historical

The same Rohonczi critique treats the manuscript's absence from catalogues until its 1838 donation as an additional provenance problem.

Evidence: Ungureanu asks why a supposedly old object is undocumented for centuries and combines that with physical dating anomalies.

Inference: Provenance gaps are evidential signals, not neutral blanks.

source_criticism · methodological

A recurring pattern in Ungureanu's work is to test emotionally or politically attractive historical objects against mundane technical constraints before interpreting them.

Evidence: His paper on an iconic advertisement for the sale of Roma slaves argues the poster is a forgery; analogous skepticism appears in the Rohonczi and Sponsianus cases.

Inference: The cross-domain method is 'authentication before interpretation'.

editorial_synthesis · interpretive

Ungureanu argues that the widely circulated poster advertising the sale of Roma slaves is a forgery rather than an authentic historical notice.

Evidence: The author abstract states that the iconic poster is proved to be a forgery.

Inference: Visual virality and moral plausibility are not substitutes for provenance.

requires_full_paper_validation · historical

He similarly argues, using typological arguments, that the disputed Sponsianus coins remain false.

Evidence: The upload abstract explicitly states the coins are false and that typological arguments are adduced.

Inference: The same source-critical instinct is applied outside linguistics.

contested · historical