MUNICIPIUM NOVIODUNUM (IN MOESIA INFERIOR) DURING THE PRINCIPATE PERIOD: ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRESENTATION USING COMPUTER SOLUTIONS, EPIGRAPHIC AND NUMISMATIC DOCUMENTATION
MUNICIPIUM NOVIODUNUM (IN MOESIA INFERIOR) DURING THE PRINCIPATE PERIOD: ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRESENTATION USING COMPUTER SOLUTIONS, EPIGRAPHIC AND NUMISMATIC DOCUMENTATION

Summary/Abstract: The work under consideration here offers a reconstruction of aspects of the history of the Noviodunum fortress during the Principate period. This reconstruction is based on a variety of historical, archaeological, epigraphic, and numismatic sources. The data provided by each of these sources was analyzed separately, from the perspective of the corresponding auxiliary disciplines (epigraphy and numismatics). These data were utilized to identify new information, confirmations, nuances, and integrations of information provided by one source through another from another category. Furthermore, it presents a computer-based method for presenting the positioning of archaeological discoveries, thereby facilitating analysis of the spatial distribution of habitation in various historical stages. In this project we have valued and highlighted the archaeological reports published over time as well as syntheses regarding the province of Moesia Inferior; the mentions in historical sources (Ptolemaios, Tabula Peuntingeriana, Intinerarium Antonini); the inscriptions included in vol. V of the corpus "Inscriptions from Scythia Minor" but also the inscriptions published after its publication; studies and articles including isolated monetary discoveries mostly collected in the volume "Early Roman and Byzantine Coins Discovered at Noviodunum..." (A. Popescu, M. Iacob) or thesauruses, provincial syntheses such as the volume "Monetary Circulation in Roman Dobrogea" (A. Vertan) or thematic ones such as the work "Coining in the Province of Moesia Inferior" (M. Iacob). The analysis of the data indicates that Noviodunum attained a level of economic, urban, and cultural development during the Roman period that substantiates its designation as a municipium.

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