Jidava (castra) explained

Jidava
Known As:Câmpulung fort
Alt Names:Jidova, Sidova
Built During Reign Of:Commodus or Septimius
Founded:190  - 211 AD
Previous Fortification:Dacian
Robust Struct Material:Stone[1]
Robust Struct Dim1:100
Robust Struct Dim2:132
Robust Struct Area:1.3
Cohorts:I Flavia Commagenorum
Province:Dacia
Admin Unit 1:Dacia Inferior
Admin Unit 2:Dacia Malvensis
Limes:Transalutanus
Links:
  • (Purcăreni)
  • (Voinești)
Coordinates:45.2207°N 25.0125°W
Map:Romania
Place Name:Apa sărată
Location Town:Câmpulung
Location County:Argeș
Ref:Ro:Lmi:AG-I-m-A-13357.02
Discovery Year:1876
Condition:Partially reconstructed
Excavations:
  • 1876
  • 1962
Archaeologists:Dimitrie Butculescu

Jidava (or Jidova) was a fort (also called Campulung Muscel fort) in the Roman province of Dacia 4 km southwest of the town of Campulung, Romania. It was built around 190–211 AD as part of the frontier system of the Limes Transalutanus located approximately 20 km south of the Rucăr-Bran pass.

It has been excavated and can be seen today.

The site is administered by the Argeș County Museum.[2]

The first wooden buildings were destroyed by a fire dated by coins of Geta and Severus Alexander (222). The stone buildings built afterwards were again destroyed by fire dated by a coin of Philip II (246), the latest coin discovered on the limes.[3]

Small thermal baths were at the NE end of the praetorium, built of brick after the stone praetorium, and overlapping the via sagularis and part of the agger.[4]

Campulung Muscel II

A smaller fort or castellum (Campulung Muscel II) was about 300m to the south at Biserica Jidovilor. Inside, a two-roomed building equipped with a heating system (hypocaust) and traces of wooden barracks have been identified. A date of beginning of the 2nd century is likely.

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Notes and References

  1. http://cereri.uab.ro/publicatii/colectia_bcss/bcss_12/Studii_articole/4%20Dan_Matei.pdf TRUPE FARA CASTRE, CASTRE FARA TRUPE ÎN DACIA, Dan Matei
  2. Enciclopedia Argeșului și Muscelului - M, at the University of Pitești Enciclopedia Argeșului și Muscelului site, p. 123
  3. Frontiera romană din Dacia Inferior. O trecere în revistă și o actualizare. LIMES / Nr. 11 / 2022 Proceedings of the Limes Congress XXV, Nijmegen 21-27 August 2022
  4. Petolescu, C.C., Matei-Popescu, F., Dumitrescu, I. și Piţigoi, A. Cronica Cercetărilor Arheologice, 68-76, nr. 11 2020