The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, Stillwell, Richard, MacDonald, William L., McAlister, Marian Holland, Ed.

ORHEIUL BISTRIŢEI Bistriţa-Năsăud, Romania.

Roman camp and civil settlement on the left bank of Bistriţa river at the NE extremity of Roman Dacia. The earth camp (203 x 144 m) was rebuilt in stone. The baths and praetorium have been excavated. Cohors I Hispanorum was stationed here.

In the neighboring civil settlement ceramics in the Dacian tradition, handmade and adorned with drawings, were discovered.

Tiles and bricks with stamps, weapons, fragments of sculpture, a brick kiln, coins from the time of Trajan to Severus are on display at the Bistriţa Museum.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

D. Protase, Problema continuităţii în lumina arheologiei şi numismaticii (1966) 45; D. Tudor, Oraşe, tîrguri şi sate în Dacia romană (1968) 268-69.

L. MARINESCU