Cercetări arheologice în canabae/municipium Septimium Apulense, sectorul estic
Archaeological Researches in canabae/municipium Septimium Apulense, the Eastern Sector

Summary/Abstract: A preventive archaeological survey carried out in Alba Iulia, 54, Iașilor Street, at a point located 700 m southeast of the 13th Gemina legion's castrum and 400 m south of the praetorium consularis (seat of the governors of Roman Dacia), in 2021, has revealed numerous vestiges belonging to the Roman era. Six phases of settlement have been identified, four of which are dated to the 2nd century AD and two others to the 3rd century AD. The importance of the finds is due to the obtaining of information of great documentary value that helps us to better understand the colonisation carried out by Trajan in Dacia and the economic role of these settlers (in this case the Norico-Pannonians). It is also the first time that more precise stratigraphic and planimetric information on the development of the canabae settlement during the 2nd century AD, respectively municipium Septimium Apulense during the 3rd century AD, has been preserved in a single point of research. The earliest phases of settlement are generally affected by the 3rd century AD settlements. We have phases of settlement from the time of Trajan and Hadrian, when Norico-Pannonian settlers built a battery of ovens, the earliest at Apulum. These were craftsmen who produced pottery for the needs of legion soldiers. The presence of the personnel represented a significant market for the craftsmen and merchants who lived in the canabae settlement. Ceramic vessels of La Tène, Celtic tradition have been recovered from the first two levels of habitation. These are of several ceramic types, of which we mention here those tripodia, then the jars with decoration in honeycomb strings and wheel-printed ornaments. Later habitation continues with the same intensity throughout the 3rd century AD. It is the easternmost point of discovery in the canabae settlement, which in the time of Septimius Severus, after 197, gained its first urban status, that of municipium.

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