Sighlsoara
SIGHLŞOARA Mureş, Romania.
A Roman camp on the left bank of Tîrnava Mare river, 3 km W of the modern town. It was an earth camp (180 x 133 m), in shape an irregular quadrilateral, with two external ditches. It was used in the first half of the 2d c. A.D., and a detachment of Legio XIII Gemina was stationed here. In the second half of the 2d c., a Roman civil settlement was built over the camp. Votive and funeral inscriptions, ceramics, stamped tiles and bricks, gems and coins are in the Sighişoara Museum.
BIBLIOGRAPHYD. Protase, Problema continuităţii în lumina arheologiei şi numismaticii (1966) 50-51; I. Mitrofan & Gh. Moldovan, “Castrul roman de la Sighişoara,” Acta Musei Napocensis 5 (1968) 99-109.
L. MARINESCU