Pons Aluti

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Pons Aluti
Alternative name Ioneștii Govorei Castle
limes Dacian Limes
section Limes Alutanus
A / X / 73
Dating (occupancy) trajanic
Type Auxiliary fort
unit Cohors III Gallorum
size indefinite
Construction Wood-earth warehouse
State of preservation invisible ground monument
place Ioneşti
Geographical location 44 ° 53 '0 "  N , 24 ° 14' 10"  E Coordinates: 44 ° 53 '0 "  N , 24 ° 14' 10"  E
height 179  m
Previous Rusidava
(A / X / 72, south)
Subsequently Stolniceni Fort
(A / X / 74, north-northeast)
Pons Aluti in the course of the Dacian Limites

Pons Aluti (German: "Bridge of the Olt ") is the ancient name of the Roman auxiliary troop camp Fort Ioneştii Govorei in what is now the municipality of Ioneşti , Vâlcea district in the Romanian region of Wallachia .

location

In today's settlement, the soil monument is on the eastern edge of the village. Topographically, it is located on a mountain on the right bank of the Olt (Latin: Alutus ). No traces of the former fort can be seen in the area. In ancient times it was an early part of the Limes Alutanus . As with all other forts on this Limes line, the Pons Aluti crew will have primarily had the task of controlling the traffic on the Olt and on the Limes road that runs parallel to it. Administratively, the military camp was first in the province of Dacia Inferior , later in the Dacia Malvensis .

Sources and research history

Pons Aluti can be found on the Tabula Peutingeriana . Already Grigore Tocilescu (1850–1909) said that he had discovered the interior of the Pons Aluti fort by means of an exploratory excavation, but as it turned out later, his investigations had only affected a few buildings of the auxiliary vicus . The only archaeological excavation that cut at least part of the military camp was an emergency excavation carried out in 1975 under the direction of Ioana Bogdan Cătăniciu .

Archaeological evidence

Only one wood-earth camp is known of Pons Aluti, which was built during the time of the Roman occupation of Dacia under Trajan . The dimensions of the fort, details of the fortifications and its internal structure are not known. During the only excavations in 1975 (see above), only the rounded north-west corner of the fence could be observed. A floor plan presented by Nicolae Gudea in 1997 is based only on assumptions that are based on the topographical features of the area. A single inscription find refers to the Cohors III Gallorum equitata , a partially mounted cohort originally excavated in Gaul , as a troop possibly stationed in Ioneștii.

Monument protection

The entire archaeological site and are in particular the castle according to the adopted in 2001 Law no. 422/2001 as historical monuments under protection and are using the LMI Code VL-IMF-09545 in the national list of historic monuments ( Lista Monumentelor istorice ) entered . Responsible is the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Ministerul Culturii și Patrimoniului Na ,ional) , in particular the General Directorate for National Cultural Heritage, the Department of Fine Arts, the National Commission for Historical Monuments and other 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 Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. 44, 2, 1997, pp. 87f., ( 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. 208.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Route / section / fort number (based on Nicolae Gudea , 1997).
  2. ^ A b Cohors III Gallorum: IDR-02, 00555 .
  3. ↑ Nicolae Gudea: The Dacian Limes. Materials on its story. In: Yearbook of the Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. 44, 2, 1997, p. 87, ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Tab. Peut. VII, 4.
  5. ↑ Pons Aluti in the spelling Ponte Aluti on the Tabula Peutingeriana, accessed on April 3, 2019.
  6. ↑ Cristian M. Vladescu: Fortificatiile romane din Dacia Inferior . Scrisul Românesc, Craiova 1986.
  7. ↑ After 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. 208.
  8. ↑ Nicolae Gudea: The Dacian Limes. Materials on its story. In: Yearbook of the Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. 44, 2, 1997, p. 88, ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ Nicolae Gudea: The Dacian Limes. Materials on its story. In: Yearbook of the Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. 44, 2, 1997, pp. 87f., ( Digitized version ).
  10. ^ 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. 208.
  11. ↑ List of historical monuments on the website of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Romanian), accessed on January 2, 2019.