Barbarian brooches in Roman context.

Opreanu, Coriolan Horațiu; Cociș, Sorin; Lăzărescu, Vlad-Andrei

doi:10.2307/j.ctv1ddcm17.9

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“…As a strategic frontier province, Dacia Porolissensis was a Roman territory with a strong military presence. The core of the Porolissum military complex was the Pomăt Hill fort, the largest auxiliary fort in the Dacian provinces, measuring 230×300 m. The civilian settlement at Porolissum was located around the fort, and due to its position at the fringes of the Empire, it developed into an important commercial hub allowing for complex connections with the Barbaricum (Opreanu and Lăzărescu 2016).…”

Section: Porolissum Roman Fort and Townmentioning

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Understanding the anomaly: reinterpreting Porolissum Roman town with emerging GPR and ER data

Pisz¹,

Lăzărescu²,

Hegyi³

2023

Advances in on- And Offshore Archaeological Prospection

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Section: Porolissum Roman Fort and Townmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the anomaly: reinterpreting Porolissum Roman town with emerging GPR and ER data

Pisz¹,

Lăzărescu²,

Hegyi³

2023

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Commodus restitutor commerciorum. The role of Palmyrene Trading Community at Porolissum

Opreanu

2021

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The author revisits an inscription found in 1986 in the shrine of the customs station at Porolissum (Jac village, Sălaj County, Romania). His new approach offers a new meaning to the epithet restitutor commerciorum addresed to emperor Commodus in the text of the inscription: commercium has in Latin written sources and in inscriptions also the sense of the place where barbarians were trading with the Romans in the vicinity of the Roman frontiers’ forts. The new interpretation is linked with the archaeological discovery at Porolissum, near the customs building of a marketplace identified by 129 coins and 43 barbarian brooches. Author’s conclusion in an earlier published book is that the brooches attest, very probable, a slave market. Another valuable merchandise recovered in the excavation is raw amber of Baltic Sea coast origin, proving the existence of a branch of the Amber Road, entering in the Empire at Porolissum. The next question approached by the author concerns the merchants able to support the distribution of these valuable goods across the Empire. He proposed as main candidate the Palmyrene civilian community recorded in the inscriptions at Porolissum. Then he explains the topographical position of the Palmyrene cult complex at Porolissum. The temple of Bel, the open=air altar and the banqueting hall were situated in the near neighbourhood of the customs building just because of the Palmyrene community’s economic interest. He argued his hypothesis with the example of the Palmyrene temple in Rome.

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Barbarian brooches in Roman context.

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Understanding the anomaly: reinterpreting Porolissum Roman town with emerging GPR and ER data

Understanding the anomaly: reinterpreting Porolissum Roman town with emerging GPR and ER data

Commodus restitutor commerciorum. The role of Palmyrene Trading Community at Porolissum

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