XXIII. Limes Congress 2015 Abstracts of Lectures and Posters List of Participants Abstracts of Lectures Inhalt Fawzi Abudanah, Via Nova Traiana between Petra and Ayn al-Qana in Arabia Petraea .................... 10 Cristina-Georgeta Alexandrescu, Not just stone: Building materials used for the fortifications in the area of Troesmis (Turcoaia, Tulcea County, RO) and its territorium (second to fourth century AD) ... 11 Cristina Georgeta Alexandrescu, Signaling in the army ...................................................................... 11 Ignacio Arce, Severan Castra, Tetrarchic Quadriburgia, Ghassanid Diyarat: Patterns of Transformation of Limes Arabicus Forts during Late Antiquity ............................................................ 12 Martina Back, Brick fabrication ............................................................................................................ 14 Gereon Balle/Markus Scholz. The monumental building beside the fort of the ala II Flavia milliaria in Aquileia/Heidenheim – Public baths or administrative building of the provincial government? (Raetia) .............................................................................................................................................................. 14 Thomas Becker/Ayla Jung, Unusual building structures in the vicus of Inheiden (Germania Superior) .............................................................................................................................................................. 15 Thomas Becker, Der Pfeilerbau im Emsbachtal (Wp 3/43a) bei Glashütten und das Ende des Limes im Hochtaunus .......................................................................................................................................... 15 J. M. Bermúdez Lorenzo, Nueva epigrafía anfórica de Raetia. ............................................................ 15 Szilvia Bíró/Orsolya Láng, „Unpleasant to live in, yet it makes the city rich”: industry and commerce along the Pannonian limes section ....................................................................................................... 16 M. C. Bishop, No Schutt, Sherlock! Military middens and the taphonomic dynamic .......................... 17 Eduard Ble/Jaume Noguera/Pau Valdés Matías, Roman republican military archaeology in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...................................................................................................... 17 Lars Blöck/Marcus Zagermann, From hinterland to frontier: the Upper Rhine valley AD 200–330 ... 18 Mario Bloier, Das norische Kastell Boiodurum (Passau-Innstadt) – Versuch einer virtuellen Rekonstruktion ..................................................................................................................................... 18 Steve Bödecker, Zur Belegungskapazität römischer Marschlager der Kaiserzeit anhand schriftlicher und archäologischer Überlieferung ...................................................................................................... 19 David J. Breeze, The role of zeitgeist in the study of Roman frontiers ................................................ 19 Peter Brennan, The tantalising Notitia Dignitatum: realising a mirage. .............................................. 20 Clive Bridger, Last (b)orders please! The beer necessities of Roman military life on the German limes .............................................................................................................................................................. 21 Marion Brüggler, The late 4th and early 5th centuries on the German Lower Rhine in the light of recent research ................................................................................................................................................ 21 Marion Brüggler/Steve Bödecker, Xanten-Beek: Temporary camp and monumental graves near Vetera ................................................................................................................................................... 22 James Bruhn, The furthest limits of Empire: the implications of the dating evidence from the ovens at the Roman camp of Kintore, Aberdeenshire. ....................................................................................... 22 Raymond Brulet, AD INTIMA GALLIARUM ........................................................................................... 23 Ilya Bulkin, The Roman defensive fortifications of North Black Sea Coast: pro et contra Limes Tauric .............................................................................................................................................................. 23 2 Boris Burandt, Habitare et deponere – Neue Ausgrabungen in der Nord-West-Ecke des römischen Legionslagers von Bonn ........................................................................................................................ 24 Daniel Burger, The sequence and development of a defence wall using the example of the Roman fortress of Mogontiacum (Mainz) ........................................................................................................ 25 Norbert Buthmann, From geophysical data to archaeological interpretation – Identification of urban structures at Arnsburg-Alteburg (Germania Superior) ......................................................................... 25 Julia Chorus, First in timber, next in stone: building auxiliary forts along the Lower Rhine (NL) ......... 26 Adriana Ciesielska, The Concepts of Frontier in Tacitus’ Works. ......................................................... 26 Tim Clerbaut, To heat or not to heat, that’s the question. Tubuli from the late Roman fort at Oudenburg. Systematic study and remarks on their origin and function. ........................................... 27 Sorin Cociș/Cosmin Onofrei/Vlad-Andrei Lăzărescu/Dragoș Blaga, New Data regarding the Roman Settlement from Sutor (Dacia) ............................................................................................................. 27 Rob Collins, The ‘Virtual’ Wall: Building global interest in Roman frontiers through digital outreach 28 Rob Collins, ‘Where are the whores?’ Expectations and realities of sexual relations in Roman military communities ......................................................................................................................................... 28 Anthony Comfort, Fortifications on the frontier between Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: the case of the Tur Abdin ................................................................................................................................... 29 José Manuel Costa García, Roman Camp and Fort Design in Hispania: Distribution, Morphology and Settlement Pattern of Roman Military sites during the Early Empire. ................................................. 29 José Manuel Costa García/Andrés Menéndez Blanco/David González Álvarez/Manuel Gago Mariño/João Fonte/Rebeca Blanco-Rotea, The presence of the roman army in north-western Hispania: New archaeological data from the ancient Asturian and Galician provinces ....................... 30 George Cupcea, Roman Military Personnel and Frontier Security ....................................................... 30 Wolfgang Czysz, A Trajanic horreum in Günzburg (Raetia) and the expansion of the Limes in Raetia 31 Ilija Danković/Ana Bogdanović, Contribution to Knowledge of Water Supply in the East Part of the Agger of Viminacium ............................................................................................................................ 32 Robert Darby, Put Before the Legions: The Auxilia in Late Roman Arabia and Palaestina under Diocletian ............................................................................................................................................. 32 D. Deac/E. Pripon, Rethinking the Religious Landscape of the vicus from Porolissum ....................... 33 Eckhard Deschler-Erb, Wie erschliesse ich eine römische Provinz? Augsburg-Oberhausen und das frühe römische Rätien .......................................................................................................................... 33 Zdravko Dimitrov, Colonia Ulpia Traiana Ratiaria – architectural complexes found by the latest excavations of the Roman military and civic center on the Lower Danube ......................................... 34 Mark Driessen/Fawzi Abudanah, The Udhruh lines of sight: connectivity in the hinterland of Petra 35 Monica K. Dütting, Fishing for facts ..................................................................................................... 35 Michal Dyčka, Modus Operandi of the Antonine Wall ........................................................................ 35 Piotr Dyczek, Wooden Barracks of the First Cohort of the Legio VIII Augusta from Novae (Moesia Inferior) ................................................................................................................................................ 36 Pia Eschbaumer, Der augusteische Militärstützpunkt am Zusammenfluss von Main und Nidda bei Frankfurt-Höchst .................................................................................................................................. 36 3 Miriam Etti, Sanctuaries in the vicus of Zugmantel ............................................................................. 37 Zbigniew T. Fiema/François Villeneuve, A Nabataean/Roman Military Camp in Ancient Hegra ........ 37 Thomas Fischer, Prunkgürtel vom