Caspingium

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Caspingium or Caspingio 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, the place is to be found in the Dutch province of South Holland .

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Caspingium on the Tabula Peutingeriana

Caspingium can be found on the Tabula Peutingeriana , which originally dates from the third century . 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). Caspingium was one of the stops along this road, at a distance of twelve Leugen (around 26.5 km) from Tablis and 18 Leugen (around 40 km) from Grinnes . It is possible that the Caspingium 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Apart from the mention on the Peutinger map, no concrete archaeological or historical references to the location of Caspingium have been found so far. The French cartographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville from the 18th century suspected Caspingium in Asperen , because of the similarity of the name and the distance to Oud-Alblas , where he assumed the location of Tablis.

An alternative hypothesis is that Caspingium was in what is now Biesbosch , near a place known as Almsvoet in the Middle Ages . This theory is mainly based on the assumption that Caspingium must have been closer to the Meuse than Asperen, which is located on the Linge .

As none of these hypotheses seemed very likely, it was most recently suggested that caspingium should be sought in the Gorinchem area .

literature

  • 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. ↑ Tab. Peut. Segment II, 2
  2. ^ Paul van der Heijden: Onderzoek naar de Lokatie van de zuidelijke route op de Tabula Peutingeriana . Nijmegen 1997, ( digitized version ), with a detailed bibliography.
  3. ^ Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville: Notice de l'ancienne Gaule. Tirée des monumens romains . Desaint & Saillant & Durand, Paris 1740, S 207, ( digitized from Google Books ).
  4. ↑ BH Stolte: De Zuidelijke off van de Peutinger door het land of the Batavians . In: Reports van de Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek , 9, 1959, pp 57-67.
  5. ↑ TM Buijtendorp: Forum Hadriani. De vergeten stad van Hadrianus. Ontwikkeling, uiterlijk en betekenis van het 'Nederlands Pompeji' . Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2010, digitized