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Jidava (castra)

Coordinates: 45°13′14.69″N 25°00′44.95″E / 45.2207472°N 25.0124861°E / 45.2207472; 25.0124861
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Jidava
Panoramic view from porta principalis sinistra: praetorium in front and then principia.
Jidava (castra) is located in Romania
Jidava (castra)
Location within Romania
Alternative name(s)Jidova, Sidova
Known also asCâmpulung fort
Founded during the reign ofCommodus or Septimius
Founded190 – 211 AD
Previous fortificationDacian
Place in the Roman world
ProvinceDacia
Administrative unitDacia Malvensis
Administrative unitDacia Inferior
LimesTransalutanus
Directly connected to
Structure
— Stone[1] structure —
Size and area100 m × 132 m (1.3 ha)
Stationed military units
Cohorts
I Flavia Commagenorum
Location
Coordinates45°13′14.69″N 25°00′44.95″E / 45.2207472°N 25.0124861°E / 45.2207472; 25.0124861
Place nameApa sărată
TownCâmpulung
CountyArgeș
Country Romania
Reference
RO-LMIAG-I-m-A-13357.02
Site notes
Recognition National Historical Monument
Discovery year1876
ConditionPartially reconstructed
Excavation dates
  • 1876
  • 1962
ArchaeologistsDimitrie Butculescu

Jidava (or Jidova) was a fort (also called Campulung Muscel fort) in the Roman province of Dacia 4 km southwest of the town of Campulung, Romania. It was built around 190–211 AD as part of the frontier system of the Limes Transalutanus located approximately 20 km south of the Rucăr-Bran pass.

It has been excavated and can be seen today.

Limes Alutanus + Transalutanus

The site is administered by the Argeș County Museum.[2]

The first wooden buildings were destroyed by a fire dated by coins of Geta and Severus Alexander (222). The stone buildings built afterwards were again destroyed by fire dated by a coin of Philip II (246), the latest coin discovered on the limes.[3]

Small thermal baths were at the NE end of the praetorium, built of brick after the stone praetorium, and overlapping the via sagularis and part of the agger.[4]

Campulung Muscel II

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A smaller fort or castellum (Campulung Muscel II) was about 300m to the south at Biserica Jidovilor. Inside, a two-roomed building equipped with a heating system (hypocaust) and traces of wooden barracks have been identified. A date of beginning of the 2nd century is likely.

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ TRUPE FARA CASTRE, CASTRE FARA TRUPE ÎN DACIA, Dan Matei[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ (in Romanian) Enciclopedia Argeșului și Muscelului - M Archived 2014-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, at the University of Pitești Enciclopedia Argeșului și Muscelului site Archived 2016-03-31 at the Wayback Machine, p. 123
  3. ^ Frontiera romană din Dacia Inferior. O trecere în revistă și o actualizare. LIMES / Nr. 11 / 2022 Proceedings of the Limes Congress XXV, Nijmegen 21-27 August 2022
  4. ^ Petolescu, C.C., Matei-Popescu, F., Dumitrescu, I. și Piţigoi, A. Cronica Cercetărilor Arheologice, 68-76, nr. 11 2020
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