À la recherche dʹun Municipium Aurelium perdu
Finding a Lost Municipium Aurelium

Summary/Abstract: The Roman inscription AE 1956, 207, supposed from Apulum, was recently revised (IDR III/5, 447). Its provenance remains unknown, and in the lines 4-5were read as ... [III]Ivir(o) m(unicipii) / A(urelii?) STR… Trying to restore the lost name of the municipium, we propose the reading …[III]Ivir(o) M(unicipii) / A(urelii) Str(aviani) …. , as the only one fitting with the text and with the situation of the monument. Also it would be the only written proof about a rather late ascension to the legal status of a Roman municipium for Stravianis, a small settlement of south-eastern Lower Pannonia, where no archaeological researches were performed yet. The townlet must have enjoyed this status short time – since Caracalla till the climax of the crisis of the 3rd century A.D.This hypothesis remains to be tested by future researches. Concerning the monument itself, it should have been a “wandering stone”, which reached a Romanian private collection.

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