NOTA EPIGRAFICA
EPIGRAPHIC NOTE

Summary/Abstract: The short note is concerned with a new epigraphic discovery – arula – that appeared in the area of St. Francisc of Paula ravelin in the summer of 2008. Situated 250 m south from porta principalis dextra of the castrum of XIIIth Legion Gemina from Apulum, within an archaeological context where, more than three decades ago, appeared, by accident, more artifacts from the Roman period (a money box which still preserved a silver denarius issued between 114-117 by emperor M. Ulpius Traianus (RIC II, 343), a lucerna with the representation of the lightning belonging to god Jupiter, ceramic and glass fragments). The small altar, made of lime, preserves an inscription on three lines, out of which only one can be restored: SABI(nus). Probably, arula from Apulum was ordered by an inhabitant of canabae belonging to XIIIth Legion Gemina, it being preserved in his dwelling in a special place (sacred). Being given the discoveries from this point, it is predicted for 2009 the start of a project of systematic archaeological research, to evidence the traces of inhabitation from this southern extramural area of the castrum and military canabae subordinated administratively to the legionary fortification from Apulum.

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