Arcidava

Arcidāva, æ, f. , ville de Dacie : Peut.

ARCIDAVA

ARCIDA´VA (Tab. Peut.;Ἀργίδαυα, Ptol. 3.8.9), a city of Dacia, on the road from Viminaocium to Tiviscum, probably near Safka or Slatina, on the river Nera.

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ARCIDAVA (Vărădia) Caraş Severin, Romania.

Roman camp and civil settlement on the left bank of Caraş river, on the main strategic and commercial road Lederata-Tibiscum, linking the Danube with the capital of Roman Dacia. The camp (174 x 154 m) was built of stone. Cohors I Vindelicorum was stationed here. In the civil settlement traces were discovered of a building with several rooms and a bath.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

G. Florescu, “Le camp romain de Arcidava, fouilles de 1932,” Istros 1 (1934) 60-72; D. Tudor, Oraşe, tírguri şi sate în Dacia ramană (1968) 48.

L. MARINESCU