Populaţia Daciei Porolissensis I. Porolissum

  • Subiect: The Population from Dacia Porolissensis. I. Porolissum This paper deals with the population of a settlement on the north limes of Dacia. It is composed of three compartments: I. A methodological introduction. II. II. The analyzed material, including two lists of names (gentilicia and cognomina) and two tables (honestiores and humiliores), grouped on onomastics - areas of provenance, social structures and functions (civil, religious and military functions), respectively. III. III. Final conclusions in which it is stated that the two main components of the population are the Orientals (Syrians, Palmyreans, Jews) and the colonists from the west (mainly Celts, from Britannia). This composition is to be explained by the two main auxiliary troops which were stationed in the camps at Porolissum: coh. I. Brittonum and Numerus Palmyrenorum. Few colonists are from other provinces: Africa, maybe the Danubian area and 'a few natives, recruited in the troops here. This ethnical structure shows a mixtum compositum, which is hold together by the municipal organization of the civil settlement, which was a pagus until Septimius Severus raised it to the rank of municipium. Such a situation is rather contradictory because, if the evidence (epigraphical, archeological, numismatic etc.) shows a very high leveled economic power of Porolissum and its inhabitants (the main occupation of whom was trading), the juridical status of the settlement is of a much lower level. Such a situation could be explained by the geographical position, at the very closed contact with the barbaricum and by the fact that in the province two other localities developed as well: Napoca (colonia from the time of Hadrian) and Potaissa (settlement developed near the camp of legio V. Macedonica, who reached under the same Septimius Severus the rank of municipium and then colonia). In the end there is analyzed the municipal hierarchy and the base of its economic power and also the relationship of Porolissum with other towns from Dacia or from other provinces (Dalmatia, Pannonia, Thracia), less with the barbaricum.
  • Limba de redactare: română
  • Secţiunea: Istorie veche şi arheologie
  • Vezi publicația: Acta Musei Porolissensis: ActaMP
  • Editura: Muzeul Judeţean de Istorie şi Artă din Zalău
  • Loc publicare: Zalău
  • Anul publicaţiei: 1988
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: XII; anul 1988; subtitlu: Anuarul Muzeuului Judeţean de Istorie şi Artă din Zalău
  • Paginaţia: 215-
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