News of Classis Flavia Moesica in Rasova. Reexamining the Tile Stamps of the Fleet on the Lower Danube Limes
News of Classis Flavia Moesica in Rasova. Reexamining the Tile Stamps of the Fleet on the Lower Danube Limes
Author(s): Ioan Carol OprișSubject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Archaeology, Local History / Microhistory, Ancient World
Published by: Muzeul de Istorie Națională și Arheologie Constanța
Keywords: Classis Flavia Moesica; milites nauclarii; statio; tile stamp; CLASFM; typology;
Summary/Abstract: A stray find from Rasova (Constanța county) bearing a CLASF[M] inscription brings to the fore the issue of the construction material with stamps of Classis Flavia Moesica, typology included. The tile has a special importance. It is actually the missing puzzle piece for inferring an early Trajanic fleet installation in Rasova and was found at the top of the so-called ”Fortress Hill”. The latter is located next to a horreum and monumental context with a Bauinschrift (dated 106 AD or a little later) and moreover along to the limes road in precisely the same place where later on Flaviana and Milites Nauclarii were mentioned in Notitia Dignitatum (Or., XXXIX, 20). Given the lack of clear archaeological contexts, it is hard to say for now if the CLASFM stamps are early 2nd century or later ones. The production must be cautiously distributed between, roughly speaking, Trajan's bellum Dacicum and the end of the Antonine dinasty.
Journal: Pontica
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 53
- Page Range: 393-406
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
