Ad Duodecimum

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Ad Duodecimum (translated: "At the Twelfth") was a Roman settlement in the province of Germania Inferior on the road from Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum ( Nijmegen ) to Lugdunum Batavorum ( Katwijk ). In the current state structure, it can be found in the Dutch province of Gelderland .

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Ad Duodecimum on the Tabula Peutingeriana

Ad Duodecimum is mentioned in the Historiae of the Roman historian Tacitus . On the Tabula Peutingeriana , the settlement is located between Grinnes (near Rossum ?) And Noviomagus Batavorum.

The Tabula Peutingeriana shows the situation in the early third century CE, when there was a road connection from Noviomagus Batavorum, the capital of the Batavian Civitas , to Forum Hadriani , the capital of the Cananefaten Civitas , which continued from the latter to Lugdunum Batavorum , the westernmost settlement on the Rhine. This road largely followed the course of the Waal and Maas , which are shown on the Peutinger map as a river with the name Patabus (a spelling or a spelling or copying error of Batavus). Ad Duodecimum was one of the stops along this road, at a distance of 18 Leugen (around 40 km) from Noviomagus and six Leugen (around 13 km) from Grinnes. It is possible that Ad Duodecimum was a statio , a Roman state stopping point on the Cursus publicus , where couriers or travelers could eat, bathe, stay overnight and change horses.

Localization attempts

Apart from the mention on the Peutinger map, no concrete archaeological or historical references to the location of Ad Duodecimum have been found so far. It was considered, “At the twelfth” could mean milestone on the twelfth. The distance would then have to be applied from Nijmegen. However, this distance does not correspond to the distance given on the table.

The French cartographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville from the 18th century suspected Ad Duodecimum due to the similarity of names and the distance to Nijmegen in Dodewaard . In the 20th century, Wamel and Maasbommel- Berghuizen were proposed as alternative locations. It was only in 2017 that Ad Duodecimum was associated with an excavated settlement between Alphen aan den Rijn and Dreumel .

literature

  • Tilmann Bechert , Harry van Enckevoort and Willem JH Willems : From the Lippe to the Waal . In: Tilmann Bechert and Willem J. H. Willems (eds.): The Roman border between the Moselle and the North Sea coast . Theiss, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1189-2 , pp. 70f.
  • Paul van der Heijden: Onderzoek naar de Lokatie van de zuidelijke route op de Tabula Peutingeriana . Nijmegen 1997, ( digitized version ), with a detailed bibliography.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tac. Ann. XII, 62.50.
  2. ↑ Tab. Peut. Segment II, 2.
  3. ↑ a b Paul van der Heijden: Onderzoek naar de Lokatie van de Zuidelijke route op de Tabula Peutingeriana . Nijmegen 1997, ( digitized version ), with a detailed bibliography.
  4. ^ Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville: Notice de l'ancienne Gaule: tirée des monumens romains . Desaint & Saillant & Durand, Paris 1740, p. 276, ( digitized from Google Books ).
  5. ↑ BH Stolte: De Zuidelijke off van de Peutinger door het land of the Batavians . In: Reports van de Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek , 9, pp. 57-67, 1959
  6. ^ Julianus Egidius Bogaers: 1968. Castra Herculi . In: Reports van de Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek 18, 1968, pp. 151-162
  7. ↑ Romeinen en complete schepen uit Alphense en Dreumelse klei on the online presence of the regional newspaper De Gelderlander (Dutch), accessed on December 1, 2018.