Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: North-eastern Raetia differs from the rest of the province (west of the river Lech) in several respects: firstly, it was only conquered by the Romans during the Claudian -early Flavian period, and not under Augustus (GIusing 1965: 7-8).Secondly, there are only few roads, namely a road along the south of the Danube, a north -south connection between Castra Regina (Regensburg) and Pons Aeni (Pfaffenhofen), and a road along the valley of the Isar heading for the Danube (Christlein 1977: 33; fig.1).Thirdly, until now there is no indication for the existence of any civitas in north-eastern Raetia (Fischer 1990: 112).Fourthly, the archaeological material shows links to the adjacent province Noricum and to Germania.It meant a drastic change to this -from a Roman point of view -underdeveloped part of the province, when in AD 179/180 the Legio III ltalica was stationed at Castra Regina.This date is of great importance for the history of the region and the chronology of the sites.As in the whole of Raetia our knowledge of Roman cemeteries from the middle Roman period in the north-east is still poor (cf.
Author: Manuela Struck
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2763031417