Folia archeologica 54.

Mráv Zsolt: Az intercisai auxiliáris castellum Commodus-kori monumentális építési feliratainak egy újabb töredéke

184 MRÁV ZSOi.T Both options must be considered when restoring the text, even though the latter seems more probable. The above clearly prove that the earlier found two fragments (RIU 1124 and 1126) and the new fragment were part of the same series of building inscriptions. The currently known fragments account for about one-fifth of the inscriptions and thus the discovery of new fragments can be expected, most likely from the graves of the Late Roman cemetery of Intercisa. The abbreviated name of the unit engaged in the construction work, the cohors I militaria Hemesenorum, was completed under Caracalla and updated with the unit adjective Antomniana. The adjective added subsequently can be easily distinguished from the inscription's original text: it was added to the middle of Line 3, in part in the place of the erased line and in part above it. At present, there is no epigraphic evidence for any construction work in the castellum during Caracalla's reign. Obviously, this does not mean that building activity involving the renovation of the fort's buildings and the improvement of the defence works had not taken place during this period or in the Severan age in the broader sense. The two earlier found inscriptions (RIU 1124 and 1126) and the new inscription had been set above the entrance of the stone gatehouses of the auxiliary castellum at Intercisa. This is indicated by the fact that the fragments probably come from two or perhaps more inscriptions with an identical text, whose length corresponds to the distance between the towers of the gatehouses (being either 4.5 or 5 m). Comparable monumental inscriptions from auxiliary castella were exclusively associated with the gatehouses, never with any of the interior buildings. The new inscription does not only support the present author's suggestion for the reconstruction of the two earlier fragments (RIÚ 1124 and 1126). but also confirms their proposed dating, namely that the stone gatehouses of the auxiliary castellum at Intercisa were not made under Caracalla, but had already been finished by 185 AD, when one or more unfinished entrances had been temporarily provided with wooden gatehouses by necessity owing to the halt in the construction work. Translated by Magdalena Seleanu