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 - Pető Mária: Feltárások a II-III. századi aquincumi legiostábor retenturájában 113-123

MÁRIA PETŐ EXCAVATIONS IN THE RETENTURA OF THE 2-3rd. CENTURY A.D. LEGIONARY CAMP OF AQUINCUM By means of the excavations conducted in the years 1973-74 a scamnum of the legionary camp at Aquincum could be determined and partly opened up. The lime-stone foundation of an object, uncovered earlier by János Szilágyi, and determined as an oil- or vine press was found in this group of finds. As a result of the recent excavations, the author found a press base which resembled the one mentioned above, but was smaller in size. She could not find the analogies of the press bases in the Mediterranean cultures, their nearest parallel is the in situ press support found in one of the buildings of the civil town of Aquincum. The outlet system of the press bases discharged into a sewer; fireplaces and pieces of grinding stones were found near them. Given our present knowledge, no satisfactory reconstruction is possible, further excavations and research is needed for this. The examination of the seeds in the scamnum did not bring the expected result either, although the absence of seeds of oily plants cannot in itself preclude that oils had been pressed in this place. For vinepressing, these devices would have been too small and too complicated. The pressing workshop can be dated to the 2nd century A.D., it worked, presumably; to the end of the Roman period. (Figures: 40-42, plates: 102-105) 16. Budapest régiségei 121