CASTRUL ROMAN APULUM – PORTA PRINCIPALIS DEXTRA
THE ROMAN CAMP OF APULUM-PORTA PRINCIPALIS DEXTRA

Summary/Abstract: This article synthetically discusses the results of archeological investigations from 2000- 2002 at the southern gate—principalis dextra—of the legion XIII Gemina’s castrum. The castrum was built in Apulum, at the order of Emperor Trajan. The site belongs to the category of doublegates, guarded by rectangular towers and it has numerous analogies in the Roman Empire and in Dacia. In 1999, the author published a small volume dedicated to this site which deserves to be conserved and opened up as a scientific and tourist attraction. (V. Moga, BMA, XII, 1999). The buildings from the Middle Ages, when the site of the ancient gate was occupied by the minting workshops shops of the town Alba Iulia (in the 18th-19th centuries) were removed.

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