The Roman fortress and the detachment of Legio VII Claudia from Cioroiu Nou, Dolj County, Romania (original) (raw)

2023, Limes XXIIII. Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, Serbia 2018

The archaeological site of Cioroiu Nou is a special monument of the Roman period, for Oltenia in particular and for Dacia, in general. Located approximately 20 km north of the Danube, includes on its territory important traces of Roman civilization. A fortress equipped with two defensive ditches and two ramparts, a large civil settlement, a temple, several important buildings, workshops for building materials, ceramics or metalworking products and one or more necropolises are just some of the Roman archeological landmarks known through research archaeological finds or accidental discoveries. The most important Roman monument is the fortress built by the soldiers of a Legio VII Claudia detachement. Also, in the first half of the 3rd century, in Cioroiu Nou functioned a military statio, as mentioned in the inscription of Germanus, speculator of legio VII Claudia. For a complet archaeological image, we have to take into consideration the richness of the archaeological discoveries, and also of the epigraphical, sculptural, ceramic and numismatic ones. All these suggests a special feature and a certain social rank of the Romans from Cioroiu Nou.