Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 23-24. (1994)
I. Arheologie
20 ADRIAN HUSAR 4 was ascribed to Trajan27 the building of the road which connectted Gallia with the Pontus Euxinus. The road along the Rhine and the Danube had, mostly, a strategic importance. Germania and Dacia were to be found at the bottoms of the Rhenanian and Danubian limes. The mobility of the military element - beside the fact that it had been an important agent of the romanization in these border provinces-, mentained alive contact between different provinces by the dislocation of the troops, as well as by the isolated soldiers moved from one squad to another or from one province to another. These relationships were mentained up to the middle of the 3rd century AD when, during the time of Philippus a vexillatio of the 22nd legion Primigenia is attested at Romula.28 Also, the cohors II Trevirorum -quartered at Zugmantel-, one of the units which accompanied this emperor in Dacia during the Carpian war (AD 245 - 248), has completed, on that occasion, its effectives with recruits from the Carpatho-Danubian province.29 Perhaps, in a greater extend than the commercial relationships, the military element30 31 succeeded to get closer to each other provinces so far off, like Dacia and Germania were. The Celts and the Germans from Dacia illustrated themselves mostly in the military life of the province. Their presence is proved both by legions - the case of the legio XIII Gemini which, coming from the Celtic zone from Vindobona, contained in its effectives some Celtic elements-, and mainly in the auxiliary units. The most numerous auxiliary troops were gives to Dacia by the Celtic and the Germanic provinces. Out of the more than 50 unite which made up the auxilia provinciae Daciae,32 almost half of them wear ethnic names like Alpinorum, Batavorum, Britannic-, Brittonum, Cannanefatium, Gaesatorum, Gallorum, Germanorum, Hispanorum, Lingonum, Montanorum, Pannoniorum, Raetorum, Tungrorum, U biorum and Vindelicorum. Many of these units which were dislocated in the new province, took part in the Dacian wars. Thus, the Germanic infantrymen -incorporated in vanguard formations, exploratores- are represented on the Trajan's Column.33 Also, a crack unit from Britain -coh. I Brittonum milliaria Ulpia 27 Aurelius Victor, Liber de Caes.. 13: "et inter ea iter conditum per feras gentes, quo facile ab usque Pontico mari in Gallia permeatur.” 28 D. Tudor, in Germania, 25, 1941, p. 239-241. 29 Kindly informed by L.Petculescu (Muzeul National de Istorie a Romäniei.) 30 M. Macrea. in AISC. V, 1944-1948. p.240. 31 V.Moga Din istoria militarö a Daciei románé. Legiunea XIII Gemina, Cluj-Napoca, 1985, passim. 32 1.1. Russu, in SCIV, 23,1, 1972, p. 63 sqq. 33 I. Rossi, Trajan's Column and the Ddcidn wars. London, 1971, p. 142, 180, 190; V.Wollmann, loc. с/f..
