Buconica

Bauconica located between Mogontiacum (Mainz) and Borbetomagus (Worms).

Buconica , also Bouconica , Bonconica , Bauconica was the name of a Roman military or road station on the left bank of the Rhine on the Roman Rhine Valley Road in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate. The name is passed down in the Itinerarium Antonini . The place is also mentioned on the Aduatuca pillar , found in Tongeren in Belgium. On the Tabula Peutingeriana , Bonconica is eight leagues south of Mogontiacum ( Mainz ) and eleven leagues north of Borbetomagus ( Worms ).

Mostly Nierstein is assumed to be the location . The Sironabad is one of the Roman finds in Nierstein . The archaeologist Gerd Rupprecht locates the base near Oppenheim . Traces of several military camps were also discovered on the right bank of the Rhine in the Trebur-Geinsheim area .

literature

Maximilian Ihm : Bauconica . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 152.
Helmut Bernhard : Nierstein, MZ. In: Heinz Cüppers (Hrsg.): The Romans in Rhineland-Palatinate. Theiss, Stuttgart 1990 (licensed edition Nikol, Hamburg 2005), ISBN 3-933203-60-0 , p. 509.
Lisa Rübeling: Life in the Roman vicus Buconica (Nierstein). Roman history brought to life on "your own front door". In: Reports on Archeology in Rheinhessen and Surroundings 2, 2009, pp. 80–84.

Individual evidence

↑ Tabula Peutingeriana ; see. Ralf Scharf: The Dux Mogontiacensis and the Notitia Dignitatum. A study of late antique border defense. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2005 ( excerpt online )
^ Maximilian Ihm : Bauconica . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 152.
↑ http://www.geschichtsverein-nierstein.de/sirona_hl.htm
↑ CIL 13,9158
↑ Bingen on milestones around 200 AD. In: regionalgeschichte.net. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .
↑ Figure on the Tabula Peutingeriana
↑ military station Buconica in Oppenheim. In: Allgemeine Zeitung , November 30, 2008; see. Not Nierstein, but Oppenheim was Buconica! , tribur.de .
↑ Roman camp secured Buconica. In: Allgemeine Zeitung , March 3, 2010.

[1] Tabula Peutingeriana ; see. Ralf Scharf: The Dux Mogontiacensis and the Notitia Dignitatum. A study of late antique border defense. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2005 ( excerpt online )

[2] Maximilian Ihm : Bauconica . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 152.

[3] ttp://www.geschichtsverein-nierstein.de/sirona_hl.htm

[4] CIL 13,9158

[5] Bingen on milestones around 200 AD. In: regionalgeschichte.net. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .

[6] Figure on the Tabula Peutingeriana

[7] military station Buconica in Oppenheim. In: Allgemeine Zeitung , November 30, 2008; see. Not Nierstein, but Oppenheim was Buconica! , tribur.de .

[8] Roman camp secured Buconica. In: Allgemeine Zeitung , March 3, 2010.