AEGYSSUS
(Tulcea) Dobrudja, Romania.
About 64 km E-SE of Galaţi, a Getaean settlement, conquered by the Romans. The name may be Celtic. Ovid
mentions it as an old fortress, founded by a certain Caspios Aegisos, on the right side of the Danube, on a high,
almost inaccessible hill. No archaeological excavations
have been undertaken. The identification with modern
Tulcea has been confirmed by an inscription mentioning
a “vexillatio (a)egisse(n)sis.” Ruined Roman walls, two
relief carvings (a Thracian knight and a funeral feast),
and other chance finds are of interest.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ov.
Pont. 1.8.13, 4.7.21, 23-24, 53;
Ant.
It. 226.2;
Not. Dig. or. 39.9.17.34; Hierocl.
Synecd.
637.14; Procop.
De aed. 4.7.
I. Barnea, “O inscripţie de la Aegyssus,”
Studi şi cercetări de istorie veche, I, 2 (1950) 175-84;
TIR, L.35 (1969) s.v.; N. Gostar, “Caspio Aegisos,”
Danubius 4
(1970) 113-21.
I. BARNEA
