ARGAMUM
(Dolojman) Dobrudja, Romania.
First Greek colony in Dobrudja mentioned by an ancient
source (Hekataios of Miletos, 6th-5th c.). Also mentioned
in the centuriation of the rural territory of Istria (A.D.
100) under Manius Laberius Maximus, governor of
Moesia Inferior, and by Procopius of Caesarea. The late
Roman circuit wall (4th-6th c.) and two Christian basilicas (6th c.) were uncovered during the archaeological
excavations.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Procop.
De aed. 4.11.20.
P. Nicorescu, “Les basiliques byzantines de Dolojman,”
Bulletin de la Section Historique de l'Académie Roumaine
25.1 (1944) 95-101; D. M. Pippidi,
Contribuţii la istoria
veche a României (2d ed. 1967) 353, 363, 369;
TIR, L.
35 (1969) s.v.; M. Coja, “Cercetări pe malul lacului
Razelm, epoca romană şi romano-bizantină,”
Peuce 2 (1971) 179-90; id.,
BMI 41.3 (1972) 33-42.
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