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Journal of Ancient Topography Journal of Ancient Topography XXIII 2013 Edited by GIOVANNI UGGERI MARIO CONGEDO EDITORE RIVISTA di TOPOGRAFIA ANTICA XXIII 2013 Direttore GIOVANNI UGGERI MARIO CONGEDO EDITORE COMITATO SCIENTIFICO OSCAR BELVEDERE , P IERO ALFREDO GIANFROTTA , STEFANIA GIGLI , C AIROLI FULVIO GIULIANI , E RIC HOSTETTER , EWALD KISLINGER , L ORENZO QUILICI , PAOLO SOMMELLA , A LEXANDRE SIMON STEFAN FRANCESCO TOMASELLO , C ARLO VARALDO REDAZIONE Riccardo Chellini, Michele Fasolo, Cesare Marangio, Maria Milvia Morciano, Annapaola Mosca JOURNAL OF ANCIENT TOPOGRAPHY Direttore Responsabile Giovanni Uggeri Registrato presso il Tribunale di Firenze, n. 4116 del 18.6.1991 © 2014 by Congedo Editore S.R.L. The Rights of Traslation and Reproduction are Reserved ISSN 1121-5275 ISBN 9788867660896 JAT XXIII (2013) Ancient Remesiana: A New Milestone from the Times of Severus Alexander VLADIMIR P. PETROVIć* - DRAGANA GRBIć* In memory of Slobodan Dušanić and Petar Petrović INTRODUCTION** Roman Remesiana (modern Bela Palanka in south-eastern Serbia)1 laid on the most important trans-Balkan land communication Singidunum — Viminacium — Naissus — Serdica — Constantinopolis, the via militaris, which is documented in four itineraries: Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum, Itinerarium Antonini, Tabula Peutinge- riana, Ravennatis anonymi cosmographia. The significance of this road, as the shortest natural link between Europe and Orient, was recognized early, in proto-history and this ancient route has long been in use.2 In Roman times, this route was a vitally significant military and trade communi- cation. Many new settlements emerged along this route: mansiones, where one could spend the night, supply with food and other needs, the mutationes, inns and small landing where it was possible to change horses and carriages, and civitates, settle- ments, whose names are preserved in the Roman road maps (itineraries). The road started at the right bank of the Danube, connecting the legionary cen- tres of Singidunum (Beograd)3 and Viminacium (Kostolac), the capital of the provin- ce Moesia Superior, whence it continued southward, through the valley of Margus (Velika Morava River)4 to Naissus (Niš)5. Naissus was an important trading and military centre of the Roman province of Upper Moesia6, established early, in the times of the Roman conquest and received * Institute for Balkan Studies of Serbian Aca- by the Ministry of Education, Science and Tech- demy of Sciences and Arts. nological Devel opment of the Republic of Serbia. ** The article results from the Serbo-French 1 TIR K-34, Naissus: 108. 2 th Pavle Savić bilateral research project: “Middle Travel writers from the 16 century saw its re- Danube, Lower Sava and Central Balkans: land mains as it is recorded in Anton Vrančić and Ghi- of anchor, land of passage from Ist to Vth century selin de Busbecq descriptions, Iter Buda Hadria- A.D”, carried out jointly by the Institute for nopolim Antonii Verantii Sebenicensis, Viaggio in Balkan Studies and the Bordeaux-based Ausonius Dalmazia dell’abate Alberto Fortis, Venezia, Institute, funded by the Ministry of Education, 1774; Itinera Constantinopolitanum et Amasia- Science and Technological Devel opment of the num ab Augerio Gislenio Busbequio ad Solima- Republic of Serbia and the French Ministry of num Turcarum Imperatorem, Antverpiae, 1582. Foreign Affairs and the project of the Institute for 3 TIR L-34, Aquincum: 102. Balkan Studies “Society, spiritual and material cul- 4 TIR K-34, Naissus: 84. ture and communications in the prehistory and 5 TIR K-34, Naissus: 89–90. early history of the Balkans (no. 177012), funded 6 IMS IV, introd. 37–48. 96 VLADIMIR P. PETROVIć - DRAGANA GRBIć the status of municipium in the 2nd century AD7. The town gained on significance in late antiquity8. The Huns destroyed it in AD 441, and it was reconstructed later in the times of Justinian9. It is important to stress that Naissus was the hub of major trans-Balkan land communications. From here, the routes led in four directions: to the North — towards Viminacium and Singidunum (Beograd), to the West — Lissus 10 11 (Lezha) and the Adriatic coast, to the South — Thessalonica (Θεσσαλονίκν) and the Aegean Sea, and to the East — Serdica (Sofia)12 and Constantinopolis (Constanti- nople) (see Map). After Naissus, the road turned eastwards, passing along the river Nišava through narrow Sićevačka gorge which opens up into a wide valley of Bela Palanka — the site of ancient Remesiana13. According to Tabula Peutingeriana (segm. VI), Remesiana was located 24 miles (36 km) from Naissus in the direction of Serdica, while the Itine- rarium Antonini (134–135.4) records the distance of 25 miles for the same section. The Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum (565.1–566.8) gives the distance of 27 miles: civi- tas Naisso XII mutatio Redicibus VII mut. Ulmo VIII mansio Romansiana. Ravenna- tis anonymi cosmographia (IV 7) lists only the toponyms — stations, but not their mutual distance: Naison Romessiana. The differences between the mileage records in itineraries will be discussed below, since the recently discovered milestone sheds an important light on the accuracy of the recorded distances. It is quite likely that two other ancient viae departed from the territory of Reme- siana. The first road was directed to the north and ran along the Svrljiški Timok Ri- ver14, joining at Niševac (Timacum Maius?) the main communication Naissus — Ra- tiaria15, which led to the Danubian limes. The second road led to the south, towards 16 the mineral-rich territory of Vlasina (iron-mine of Božica) and Pautalia, Kjyustendil in modern western Bulgaria17. The earliest clear attestations of the toponym come from the third century sour- ces, from the itineraries (It. Ant. and Tab. Peut.). Remesiana also seems to be attested in the famous laterculum from Viminacium18, as a radically abbreviated origo: R(eme- siana?) of thirty-five veterans of the legion VII Claudia, who were recruited in 169 AD and received honourable discharge (honesta missio) in 195 AD. Although hy- pothetical, this restitution should be accepted, since the only other candidate — the Upper Moesian colony of Ratiaria19, is represented in the same inscription by the ab- breviation Rat( ). The legal status of Remesiana is not known. There is no evidence that it was ever conferred with municipal status20. In the Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum, Remesiana is qualified as mansio, an agglomeration along a path. In Procopius’ De Aedificiis, Re- mesiana is mentioned as the centre of a region (χώρα), in which Justinian had renova- ted thirty castella. In contrast to Naissus, which is qualified as a , Remesiana is πόλις designated as 21. It was a centre of a large del. regio, the seat of one of Upper πολίχνιον 7 15 IMS IV 10, 18, 27. PETROVIć, FILIPOVIć and MILIVOJEVIć 2012: 8 Naissus was the hometown of Constantine the 73-111. Great, who “magnificently ornamented” (magni- 16 TIR K-34, Naissus: 98; DAVIES 1935, 229; th fice ornavit) this town (Anon. Vales. II, 2). In 4 DUšANIć 1977, 74; P. PETROVIć, IMS IV (introd.), century AD, it was an important Episcopalian 57. 17 seat, ZEILLER 1918, 165, 215. DUšANIć 1977, 73; P. PETROVIć, IMS IV (in- 9 P. PETROVIć, IMS IV (introd.) 40 41. trod.) 52. 10 TIR K-34, Naissus: 79. ? 18 CIL III 14507 = IMS II 53. 11 TIR K-34, Naissus: 139-147. 19 TIR K-34, Naissus: 107. 12 20 TIR K-34, Naissus: 113-114. DUšANIć 1977, 74, n. 133. 13 TIR K-34, Naissus: 108. 21 Procop. De Aed. (ed. HAURY) IV 1, 32; 6, 19; 14 TIR K-34, Naissus: 125. DUšANIć 1977, 74. ANCIENT REMESIANA: A NEW MILESTONE FROM THE TIMES OF SEVERUS ALEXANDER 97 Roman Roads in Moesia Superior Moesian mining districts (copper, gold, iron), which was most probably a part of the fiscal domain, or at least originated as one22. This region formed a unity with the mi- 23 nes of Božica in the Vlasina district, further on the south . As we have already men- tioned, a Roman road linked this district with its centre in Bela Palanka. The mining activity in this area also seems to be reflected in the toponym, Φρερραρία (sic!), i.e. 24 Ferraria, one of the castella on the territory of Remesiana (ἐν χώρα Ῥεμεσιανισία) . Ferraria could be identified with the Roman iron mine of Božica or as the mine of Ruplje25. 22 DUšANIć 1977, 74; DUšANIć 2004, 258, n 53. Dalmatia, Dacia and Kosmaj mines, ibid, n. 137. The name of another castellum in the territory of 23 ibid. 24 Remesiana, Δάλματας (Delmatae) may speak of the Procop. De Aed. (ed. HAURY) IV 1, 32; 6, 19. transplantation of the Delmatae, analogously to the DUšANIć 1977, 74. well attested case of the imperial domains eastern 98 VLADIMIR P. PETROVIć - DRAGANA GRBIć Carl Patsch’s hypothesis that Remesiana was the seat of the concilium provinciae of Upper Moesia, based on four honorary inscriptions, is principally abandoned.26 His conclusion is drawn on the basis of a dedication set up by splendidissima et devo- tissima numini eorum provincia Moesia Superior27, and three inscriptions on the bases for statues, dedicated to Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Julia Domna28, set up by Res publica Ulpiana29 under care of the governor of the province, Q. Anicius Faustus 30 in 202 AD. The interpretation of N. Vulić is more attractive . He connected the erection of these monuments with the occasion of the return of Severi from the East in 202 AD. The governor of Upper Moesia, Q. Anicius Faustus31 chose Remesiana as a place to welcome the imperial family, most probably because this was the first set- tlement, when entering the province from the direction of Thrace32. From the 4th century Remesiana was an important regional centre of Christia- nity33. It was the seat of the bishop Niceta34, who lived between 366 and 414 AD, fa- mous for his missionary work among the Thracian Bessi35, and among auri leguli of his bishopric36.
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