CONTRIBUłII LA NAVIGAłIA FLUVIALĂ PE RÂUL MURES ÎN SECOLELE II-III P. CHR. SI PORTUL DE LA APULUM
NAVIGATION ON THE MURES RIVER IN THE 2nd-3rd CENTURIES A.D. AND THE PORT OF APULUM

Summary/Abstract: The river Mures was widely used for strategic and economic purpose in antiquity both by Romans and Barbarians. The scenes on Trajan’s Column present the ports and minor subsidiary constructions built by the Romans starting with the Dacian wars. Other harbor buildings were erected on the Mures banks at Apulum, Cigmău, Micia, Cladova, Cenad, and Praliscum-Szeged. Stamped bricks belonging to Leg. XIII Gemina were found in all these places. Most bricks had been produced at Apulum and then transported down the Mures River. A military and civilian centre, Apulum was the most important river port of the province. A nautarum collegium (a boatmen’s association) may have functioned around the port roadstead, near present-day Partos. The association owed its existence to strict orders from theApulum had yet another advantage: it was situated at the intersection of the Mures River road and the most important Dacian Imperial road. The latter road connected the most important towns in the northern Danube: Dierna, Tibiscum, Ulpia Traiana, Apulum, Potaissa, Napoca and Porolissum.

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