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 - Németh Margit: Római kori lakóház és vízvezeték az aquincumi canabaeban : előzetes jelentés 153-161

MARGIT NÉMETH A FURTHER EPIGRAPHIC MONUMENT FROM AQUINCUM ON THE VISIT OF SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS IN THE YEAR 202 A. D. A Roman dwelling house was excavated during the 1968 and 1973 excavations in the southern paît of the canabae of Aquincum on the eastern side of the modern house at Korvin Ottó Street 3, Budapest, 3rd district. Excavations were already carried out here between 1950 and 1953, the remains of some buildings of that excavation can be seen in the Museum of the Fort City (see Klára Sz. Póczy. Bp. Rég. 16/1955/41 pp). As a result of the recent excavations, east of the earlier investigations the almost complete ground plan of a dwelling house could be cleared up. Some stratigraphie and chronological observations could also be made concerning thé building density of the area. There was an oblong paved courtyard in the axis of the building, with apsidal pool termination in the west. The northern and southern sides were lined with heatable terrazzo floored rooms provided with hypocaustum. There were some rooms without heating also. The eastern termination and the entrance to the dwelling house were not found. No traces of Roman construction was found to the north of the house, most likely because of the proximity of the legionary camp, but to the south remains of a house of simpler construction came to light. Both buildings had three construction periods, the first stone edifice was built at the beginning of the second century A.D., further constructions follow on a larger scale only during the middle of the second century. As far as a ground plan is concerned, the house of the third period is known, dating to the turn of the second and third centuries A.D. This building was in use for a long time, at least to the end of the fourth century, only the floors and wall paintings were mended. The building having been deserted in the fourth century, contemporaneously with the construction of the new fort, a NW-SE, 1, 30 m. thick aqueduct wall was lead through the building, which conducted the water from the NW in two parallel clay pipes. After the construction of this aqueduct well, the building must have only provided ad hoc housing for the needy, indicated by the wall added to the aqueduct wall inmud-laied opus spicatum technique, and a heating area. The burials belong to the period when the buildings were already deserted, a grave with a stone lid, a brick grave and some wooden coffins. Further investigations of the cemetery is needed for any conclusions and chronologies concerning the burials. (See also K. Sz. Póczy, op. cit. 74. ) (Figures: 50-51, plates: 140-155)