Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 23-24. (1994)
I. Arheologie
3 CELTS AND GERMANS IN DACIA 19 they stationed some decades in other provinces being submitted to a fast romanization.13 The greatest part of the colonists coming from the Celtic zones of the western and central Europe don't have their status and occupation indicated; so that a formal classification of the informations given by the epigraphical-anthroponimic materials about the Celts from Dacia on categories, occupations and "specialization” of the civilian elements is not, for the time, being possible. A few epigraphical sources illustrates the presence of the Celts in the social life of Dacia, their access to the functions and public honours14 and, implicitly, in the municipal aristocracy, as follows: L. ? Grattius Paternus,15 dec(urío) col(oniae) Sarmiz(egetusae), C. Iuliu Carus,16 dec. col. Sarm., C. lulius Fronto,17 dec. col. Sarm., C lulius C. fii. Pap. Valerius,18 dec. col. et llviral col. Sarm., M. lulius Pap. lustus,19 dec. col. Sarm., C. Romanius Summus,20 dec. col. Sarm., Sex Valerius21 . . . , dec. col. Sarm., Sex. Valerius Fronto,22 dec. et llvir. col. Sarm., C. Togernius Ingenuus23 aug(ustalis) col. Sarm., M. Veponius Maximinus,24 aug. col. Sarm., and T. Fabius Ibliomarus,25 dec(urio) kanab(arum) at Apulum. The Celtic colonists - craftsmen, agriculturists, merchants, membres of the bureaucratic apparatus - were an active presence in the economical life of the Trajanic province. Doubtless, the most dynamic elements were the businessmen as those cives Treveri mentioned in Dacia. Significant is also the case of a merchant established in Aquileea - M. Secundinus Genialis, domo Cl(audia) Agrip(pina) - who entitled himself negotiator Daciscus26 Within the connections between Dacia and the provinces of the Danubian and Rhenanian limes, the relationships of military and economical order were on the first place. The Danube linked the roads network of Dacia to the great ways of communication of the Empire. It 13 V.Wollmann. in Germania. 53.1975, p. 171. 14 Concerning, the social and political structures at Sarmizegetusa, see A. Paki. in SCIVA. 41, 2, 1990, p,149sqq. 15 Ibid., p.152. tab. 3, no. 31. 16 Ibid., tab. 3, no. 33 17 Ibid., tab. 3, no. 35 18 Ibid., tab. 3, no. 38 19 Ibid., tab. 3, no. 36 20 Ibid., tab. 3, no. 46 21 Ibid., tab. 3, no. 51 22 Ibid., tab. 4, no. 16 23 Ibid., tab. 8, no. 31 24 Ibid., tab. 8. no. 34 25 CIL. III. 1214, ct. J.Krier, op.cit.. p. 149. 26 CIL. V. 1047 = ILS, 7526
