Noi date despre limita de vest a incintei callatiene
New Data about the Western Limit of the Callatian City Precinct

Summary/Abstract: The recent archaeological research in Mangalia on dr. Motaş Street, no. 1, had been conducted on three areas (noted C1, C2 and C3, (see Pl. I and Pl. II), covering the perimeter of a new building and of two household annexes planned to be built. At this point, the research led to the identification of the southern side of a tower (in the C2 square from the C1 area, Pl. I), joining with the western enclosure of the city from the late Roman era at approximately 15 m far to the East. The interior face of it had been discovered in the areas C2 and C3, whereas a part of the emplecton had been discovered only in the area C2. In the excavations area, the fortification wall follows another direction then that present on the previous plans of the fortress, indicating a parallel path with Constanţei Street (to the East from this one, behind the line of the blocks); this goes at approx. 25 m – 30 m west of the point we presented, the fortification wall at the N–W corner, and it is, in the Roman time, part of the defensive system on the West side. There have been discovered the architectonic elements belonging to a gate, that prove the presence of the West gate of Callatis city in the late Roman era, next to the tower discovered earlier. The research also confirms a different planimetry of the fortification wall on the west side in the late period, this being withdrawn with approx. 25 m – 30 m to the East from the enclosure traject of the Roman era (Pl. VII).

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