Cristian Găzdac,  Coins in Archaeological Context: Sutor (Optatiana)  the Vicus and the Baths Complex (Coins from Roman sites and collections of Roman coins from Romania, Vol. XVII)
Language: Engish. Category: Roman Provincial Coinage

 

   The purpose of this volume was to bring together two previously published studies on two different archaeological units of the same site. This idea came as the authors have a long experience on what it means to keep searching and bring together information in order to have an overall picture on a subject. Furthermore, the stratigraphic and the numismatic analyses of the two archaeological units  the baths complex and the vicus  offer the possibility to synchronise the building phases between the baths and the vicus and to include the numismatic evidence in the general statistics of the site (tables; graphs).
   Certainly, one can ask why we did not proceed from the beginning directly with a book? It was all depending on various unpredictable factors such as: the area of excavations; the length of the period for systematic investigations/year; the relevance  quantity and quality  of the numismatic evidence that was going to be collected during excavations; the financial support involved to allow, first, to continue the archaeological investigations, second, to which scale can the excavations be carried on.
   The rescue excavations following the building of a segment of the motorway A3, Brașov-Borș, have led to the discovery of almost the entire area of the archaeological site of Sutor (hypothetically identified with the ancient Optatiana mentioned on the Peutinger’s Tabula): the auxiliary fort, the bath complex and the vicus. Unfortunately, as the investigations has proven, the auxiliary fort area cannot be properly excavated as the alluvial layer  a consequence of the numerous floods of the river Almaş in 1879, 1980  has a thickness up to 2 m.

 

Table of contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

The Site

THE VICUS

Numismatic comments

Coins in archaeological contexts

Conclusions

THE CIVILIAN BATHS OF THE AUXILIARY FORT

Numismatic comments

Coins in archaeological context

Conclusions

REFERENCES

TABLES

GRAPHS

MAPS

FIGURES

CATALOGUE – VICUS

CATALOGUE – BATHS COMPLEX

 
Details
Publisher Editura Mega
Language English
Pages 116
Illustrations b/w figures, maps
Binding paperback
ISBN 978-606-020-601-9
Creation date 2023
Size 21 x 29 cm

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