Aradul Nou Castle

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Aradul Nou Castle
limes Dacian Limes
section A / I / 2
Dating (occupancy) unknown
Type Cohort fort (?)
unit a) Legio XIII Gemina (construction team),
b) Legio IIII Flavia Felix (construction team),
c) auxiliary unit (?)
size unknown
State of preservation not visible in the area,
fort unexplored
place Arad
Geographical location 46 ° 8 '48.5 "  N , 21 ° 18' 54.3"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 8 '48.5 "  N , 21 ° 18' 54.3"  E
height 110  m
Previous Bulci Fort (east, A / I / 1)
Subsequently Fort Sânnicolau Mare (west, A / I / 3)
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Brick stamp of the Legio XIII Gemina from Aradul Nou
Brick stamp of the Legio IIII Flavia Felix from Aradul Nou

The fort Aradul Nou was a Roman auxiliary troops bearing ( auxiliary ) and part of the outline in the western chain of fortresses of the Dacian limes (limes Daciae) , in the municipality of the City of Arad , IV. District New Arad , Arad county , in Romania .

Development and function

The large Dacian settlement, which was located on the southern edge of today's city of Arad, was burned down by the Roman army during the First Dacian War (101-102 AD) . During the second Dacian War (105-106 AD), Trajan also occupied the regions north of the Mureș (Latin: Marisus ) and incorporated them into the province of Dacia Superior . The Roman army built a fort in the area of ​​what is now the city district of Neu-Arad, which was initially occupied by legions. The auxiliary cohort, possibly later stationed in this fort, was responsible, among other things, of monitoring and securing the road connection from Micia to Partiscum , which followed the southern bank of the Mureș River to the northwest.

Four found brick stamps of the Legio XIII Gemina and the Legio IIII Flavia Felix seem to at least confirm the identification of the site as a Roman military installation. Presumably the fortification was built in the early 2nd century by vexillations of these two legions. Their bricks were often found on the lower reaches of the Mureș. B. in Bulci , Cladova, Periam , Sânnicolau Mare and Szeged . This is probably also a proof that the Romans had already brought this area under control at the beginning of their rule in Dacia. The brick stamps are now in the Museum of Archeology and History ( Romanian Muzeul de Arheologie și Istorie ) in Arad. So far, however, most of the Roman fortifications have either not been investigated at all or only little (as of 2003).

Monument protection

All the archaeological sites are protected as historical monuments under Law No. 422/2001, passed in 2001 and are included in the National List of Historic Monuments ( Lista Monumentelor Istorice ) under LMI codes AR-IsB-00423 and AR-IsB-00425 registered. Responsible are the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Ministerul Culturii şi Patrimoniului Naţional), in particular the General Directorate for National Cultural Heritage, the Department of Fine Arts and the National Commission for Historical Monuments and other important institutions subordinate to the Ministry. Unauthorized excavations and the export of ancient objects are prohibited in Romania.

See also

literature

  • Nicolae Gudea : The Dacian Limes. Materials on its story. In: Yearbook of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum Mainz. 44, 2 (1997), p. 23f. ( PDF ).
  • Nicolae Gudea: Limesul Daciei romanc de la Traianus la Aurelianus. In: Acta Musei Porolissensis 1. 1977, p. 109 (in Romanian).
  • Nicolae Gudea: The Limes Dakiens and the defense of the Upper Moesian Danube line from Trajan to Aurelian. In: Rise and Fall of the Roman World . Part II, Volume 6. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1977, ISBN 3-11-006735-8 , p. 871 (therein p. 871: 12. List of military camps ).
  • Felix Milleker : Délmagyarország régiségleletei a honfoglalás előtti idökböl. (The archaeological finds in southern Hungary before the time of the conquest.) Temeschburg 1899, pp. 13–14 (in Hungarian).
  • Alexandru Borza: Banatul în timpul Romanilor. (The Banat in Roman times.) Temeschburg 1943, p. 79 (in Romanian language),
  • Dumitru Tudor: Corpus monumentorum religionis equitum danuvinorum (CMRED). The monuments. Volume 1. Brill, Leiden 1969, p. 58.
  • Liviu Mărghitan: Decebal. Editura Militară, Bucharest 1978, p. 102.
  • Doina Benea: The economic activity in the village branches between Theiss, Marosch and Danube. In: Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 9 (2003), pp. 299-318 ( PDF ).

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Remarks

  1. ^ Route / section / fort number (based on Nicolae Gudea , 1997).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doina Benaea: 2003
  2. ↑ LMI AR-IsB-00423
  3. ↑ LMI AR-IsB-00425
  4. ↑ List of historical monuments on the website of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage