Budapest Régiségei 24/1. (1976)

ÓBUDA, RÓMAI KORI TÁBOROK, CANABAE ÉS KÖZÉPKORI VÁROS = ÓBUDA, ROMAN CAMPS, CANABAE AND THE MEDIEVAL TOWN = OBUDA, LAGERÂ I KANABE RIMSKOJ EPOHI I SREDNEVEKOVYJ GOROD - Póczy Klára: A porta praetoria feltárása az aquincumi legiostáborban 79-89

KLÁRA PÓCZY THE EXCAVATION OF THE PORTA PRAETORIA IN THE AQUINCUM LEGIONARY CAMP The excavation of 1973-75 have shown that radical reconstructions had been carried out at the eastern front of the Aquincum legionary stone camp during the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. Rebuilding in compliance with the new methods of strategy can be first observed sometime around the first half of the 3rd century - as to be concluded from the finds in Caracalla's or Heliogabalus's times - on the inner side of the wall of the camp. The turf rampart and With it several bastions were pulled down: horreums and magazines were buit in their places. During the last years of the 3rd century, possibly under Diocletian or maybe Constantine the Great, the eastern gate of the camp was radically rebuilt. The new porta praetoria had three openings, the passages led through between octoganal towers. Where the quadrangular bastions set back from the wall, built in the 2nd century, were still intact, they were included into the major buildings. Sometime in the second half of the 4th century the ditch bordering the outside of the wall of the camps was filled up too, and magazines and other buildings were erected leaning to the wall on the side of the castrum facing the enemy. The defensive function of the area completely changed at that time: the new camp got nearer to the banks of the Danube. (Figures: 20-29, plates: 66-85) r 87