Marcodurum
Marcodurum was a vicus in the Rhineland in Roman times.
In his vicinity, during the Batavian uprising in 69, ubic cohorts loyal to Rome suffered a heavy defeat against the insurgents, as the Roman historian Tacitus reports:
- "Their [the Ubier] cohorts were killed in the Vicus Marcodurum, where they lingered quite carelessly because they were far from the bank [of the Rhine]."
Possible localization
By deep plowing on the "Getzer Acker" between the Düren districts of Mariaweiler and Hoven , numerous coin and fibula finds from the 1st to 3rd centuries AD came to the surface in the 1980s. The analysis of the finds by the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne allows the conclusion that they go back to the Marcodurum mentioned by Tacitus.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tacitus, Historien 4, 28: Caesae cohortes eorum in vico Marcoduro incuriosius agentes, quia procul ripa aberant .
- ↑ Johannes Heinrichs: A vicus of the early and middle Roman imperial times near Düren-Mariaweiler (Marcodurum), p. 8 (see literature).
literature
- Johannes Heinrichs : A vicus of the early and middle Roman Imperial Era near Düren-Mariaweiler (Marcodurum): topography, reading finds relevant to settlement history (coins and primers), local and regional history . In: Kölner Jahrbuch , Volume 39, 2006, published by the Roman-Germanic Museum and the Cologne Archaeological Society. Mann, Berlin 2007, pp. 7-110, ISBN 978-3-7861-2577-8