Bologa

BOLOGA (“Resculum”) Cluj, Romania.

Roman camp (2d-3d c.) on a plateau at the junction of the Săcueul valley with Crişul Tepede river, the westernmost point of Dacia. It is mentioned in a tabula cerata (CIL III, p. 924, tab.cer. I= ILS, 7215).

Excavations have revealed that the earth camp was replaced by a stone one (213 x 133 m), quadrilateral with round corners. The gates protrude in a semicircle, and the corner towers are trapezoidal in section. Both Cohors II Hispanorum Scutata Cyrenaica equitata and Cohors I Aelia Gaesatorum milliaria were stationed here. Inscriptions, stamped bricks and tiles, coins, and Dacian ceramics have been found.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

M. Macrea, “Castrul roman de la Bologa,” Anuarul Comisiunii Manumentelor Istorice. Secţia pentru Transilvania 4 (1932-38) 195-233; N. Gudea, “Ceramica dacică din castrul roman de la Bologa, jud. Cluj,” Acta Musei Napocensis 6 (1969) 503-8.

L. MARINESCU