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Considerations about the Roman earth embankments in Banat [PDF]

Analele Banatului. Arheologie-Istorie, 2023
The Roman earth embankments in Banat are part of the border system called limes Sarmatiae by the Hungarian archaeologists. This paper brings into question their defensive military role and presents also the hypothesis of using this artificial barrier ...
Alexandru Flutur
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Daily Life in the Limesgebiet: Archaeozoological Evidence on Animal Resource Exploitation in Lower Danubian Sites of 2nd–6th Centuries AD

Diversity, 2022
Roman Limesgebiet was both a border between the Greco–Roman world and barbaricum, but also the contact area between these two parts of the ancient oicumene.
Simina Margareta Stanc, George Nuțu, Aurel Constantin Mototolea, Luminița Bejenaru   +3 more
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Fine wares from the Late Roman ‘Principia’at Capidava (II) [PDF]

Cercetări Arheologice, 2023
The Late Roman principia from Capidava was built at the end of the 3rd – beginning of the 4th century, most likely during the general reconstruction (phase II) of the fort, as a result of the bellum Scythicum.
Alexandru Rațiu, Ioan C. Opriș, Mihai Duca   +2 more
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THE ROMAN FRONTIER IN DOBRUDJA. SEVERAL FORTIFICATIONS NOT EXCAVATED OR WITH UNDETERMINED PLANIMETRIC FEATURES

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2020
Eight different fortifications of unequal size and strategic importance are tackled in this contribution, namely the ones along the Danube limes, starting at Seimenii Mari, Stânca Topalu - Cariera Cekirgea, Cius - Gârliciu, Luncavița - Milan, Isaccea ...
Ioan C. Opriș, Ovidiu Țentea, Vlad Călina   +2 more
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Horsemen from the Rhine. Early roman military equipment from Capidava (I)

Cercetări Arheologice, 2021
This paper emphasizes on the discoveries of Roman military equipment from the last four campaigns from Capidava (2015 – 2019). The equipment presented is, for the most part, characteristic of the equipment of Roman auxiliary horsemen from the 1st and 2nd
Rațiu, Alexandru, Opriș, Ioan C.
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AN ANONYMOUS STATIO OF CLASSIS FLAVIA MOESICA AND LATER FLAVIANA. ALL WE KNOW FOR NOW ABOUT ROMAN RASOVA (CONSTANȚA COUNTY, ROMANIA)

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2021
Few things have been written on Roman Rasova, although the subject proves to be a generous one and invites to further archaeological investigations.
Ioan Carol Opriș
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REDISCOVERING ROMAN CIUS (GÂRLICIU, CONSTANȚA COUNTY). FROM EMPEROR VALENS TO GRIGORE TOCILESCU, THEODOR MOMMSEN AND BEYOND

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2020
Our paper aims at bringing more facts to light over one of the Lower Danube forts – i.e. Cius (Gârliciu), by using all available data, including cartographic information, archive mentions by Pamfil Polonic, other epigraphic and numismatic elements, or ...
Ioan Carol Opris
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AN EARLY BYZANTINE AMPHORAE DEPOSIT FROM CAPIDAVA

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2016
The subject of this paper is a thorough analysis of an amphorae deposit excavated during several campaigns in Building C1 at Capidava. The context of the discovery is dated at the end of the 6th c.
Ioan Carol Opris, Alexandru Rațiu
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Scripta manent... A jar with Latin inscription from the north-eastern Lower Moesia [PDF]

Cercetări Arheologice
This paper presents two pieces of large jars, one of them bearing a Latin inscription of four letters, spelling SATV, the other decorated with geometrical figurines imprinted in the row fabric before firing.
Marian Mocanu
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“God’s Grace is a Gain”: Dipinti on a Sixth- Century Amphora from Trimammium

Open Archaeology, 2018
The paper publishes an amphora with dipinti from the sixth century AD, found in the military camp of Trimammium on the Lower Danube limes (the Late Antique province of Moesia Secunda).
Sharankov Nicolay, Varbanov Varbin
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