Jidava (castra)
| Jidava | |
|---|---|
Dacia Inferior | |
| Limes | Transalutanus |
| Directly connected to | |
| Structure | |
| — Stone[1] structure — | |
| Size and area | 100 m × 132 m (1.3 ha) |
| Stationed military units | |
| — Cohorts — | |
| I Flavia Commagenorum | |
| Location | |
RO-LMI | AG-I-m-A-13357.02 |
| Site notes | |
| Recognition |  National Historical Monument |
| Discovery year | 1876 |
| Condition | Partially reconstructed |
| Excavation dates |
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| Archaeologists | Dimitrie Butculescu |
Jidava (or Jidova) was a
It has been excavated and can be seen today.
The site is administered by the Argeș County Museum.[2]
The first wooden buildings were destroyed by a fire dated by coins of Geta and Severus Alexander (222). The stone buildings built afterwards were again destroyed by fire dated by a coin of Philip II (246), the latest coin discovered on the limes.[3]
Small thermal baths were at the NE end of the praetorium, built of brick after the stone praetorium, and overlapping the via sagularis and part of the agger.[4]
Campulung Muscel II
A smaller fort or castellum (Campulung Muscel II) was about 300m to the south at Biserica Jidovilor. Inside, a two-roomed building equipped with a heating system (hypocaust) and traces of wooden barracks have been identified. A date of beginning of the 2nd century is likely.
Gallery
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The plan of the castrum -
The front of reconstructed wall and tower -
The back of reconstructed wall and tower -
Praetorium -
Hypocaust room of Praetorium
See also
- List of castra
Notes
- ^ TRUPE FARA CASTRE, CASTRE FARA TRUPE ÎN DACIA, Dan Matei[permanent dead link]
- ^ (in Romanian) Enciclopedia Argeșului și Muscelului - M Archived 2014-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, at the University of Pitești Enciclopedia Argeșului și Muscelului site Archived 2016-03-31 at the Wayback Machine, p. 123
- ^ Frontiera romană din Dacia Inferior. O trecere în revistă și o actualizare. LIMES / Nr. 11 / 2022 Proceedings of the Limes Congress XXV, Nijmegen 21-27 August 2022
- ^ Petolescu, C.C., Matei-Popescu, F., Dumitrescu, I. și Piţigoi, A. Cronica Cercetărilor Arheologice, 68-76, nr. 11 2020
External links
Media related to Castra Jidava at Wikimedia Commons- Roman castra from Romania - Google Maps / Earth Archived 2012-01-17 at the Wayback Machine
