Perișani Castle

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Perișani Castle
limes Dacian Limes
section Limes Alutanus , A / X / 79
State of preservation just guessed
place Perișani / Pripoare
Geographical location 45 ° 22 '15 "  N , 24 ° 24' 3"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 22 '15 "  N , 24 ° 24' 3"  E
height 555  m
Previous Rădăcinești Castle
(south, A / X / 77)
Subsequently Titeşti Castle
(north, A / X / 80)
Backwards Praetorium I
(north-northwest, A / X / 81)
Praetorium II
(north-northwest, A / X / 82)
Perisani fort in the course of the Dacian Limites

The fort Perişani is a suspected former Roman auxiliary troops camp in the area of the municipality Perişani belonging village Pripoare in the Romanian county Valcea in the historical region Muntenia . In ancient times it was part of the Limes Alutanus and administratively belonged to the province of Dacia inferior , later to the Dacia Malvensis .

location

The suspected area is located south of the village of Perișani on a high terrace on the eastern bank of the stream of the same name. Nothing can be seen in the area, the fort may have been destroyed by human intervention. It would have been part of the Limes Alutanus and in ancient times would have belonged administratively to the province of Dacia inferior , later to the Dacia Malvensis .

The fort would have been one of three previously known camps ( Fort Rădăcineşti , Fort Perişani and Fort Titeşti ), which had been advanced eight to twelve kilometers east over a total distance of 15 km from Olt (Latin Alutus ). It was thus possibly part of a pre-defense line in front of the Olt valley to protect the strategically and economically important trunk road running through it. In addition, a side street in this area led from the Olt and running in a north-easterly direction into the mountains. It is possible that the fort crew was responsible for monitoring this potential gateway into the Olt valley.

Archaeological evidence

Due to the accumulation of finds of Roman provenance on site, in combination with the fact that there would have to be another fort between the castles of Rădăcineşti and Titesti and that this place would be topographically predestined for it, the fort is only suspected. Corresponding findings are not available, systematic archaeological investigations have not yet taken place. The suspected area has not yet been included in the Romanian list of monuments Lista Monumentelor Istorice .

See also

literature

  • Nicolae Gudea : The Dacian Limes. Materials on its story. In: Yearbook of the Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. 44, 2, 1997, p. 91, ( digitized version ).
  • Felix Marcu: The Internal Planning of Roman Forts of Dacia . (= Bibliotheca Mvsei Napocensis XXX), Mega Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca 2009, ISBN 978-606-543-058-7 , p. 240.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nicolae Gudea : The Dacian Limes. Materials on its story. In: Yearbook of the Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. 44, 2, 1997, p. 91, ( digitized version ).