Transformation of the town structure in the Civil Town of Aquincum during the Severi (A. D. 193-235)
Transformation of the town structure in the Civil Town of Aquincum during the Severi (A. D. 193-235)

Summary/Abstract: Both the authors and the historians of the classical period definitely date the start of the crisis of the Roman Empire from the 3rd century, the period starting with the Severi. At the same time, the little more than four decades of the Severus period following the devastation of the Marcomann wars marked one of the most flourishing periods in the settlements along the Danubian limes. Nearly all the studies and summaries on the topography of Aquincum refer to time from the turn of the 2nd and 3rd centuries to the first third of the 3rd century as a period of the most important changes in the aspect of the town. The estimation of the features and extensions of the changes however is diverse. Opinions vary from the simple “reconstruction” following the devastation of the wars to a general “town development”, which included the marking out of the insula and street systems. Lajos Nagy interpreted the new aspect of the civil town, which can be seen to date, as “the result of later town-planning operations”.

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