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Dyczek, Piotr: Via inscriptionum at Novae
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Piotr Dyczek
Warszawa
VIA INSCRIPTIONUM AT NOYAE
As a result of the research conducted so far by the Archaeological Research
Centre at the University of Warsaw along the IV section in Novae, it was noted that
within its borders there were three constructions of considerable sizes, different
from one another from the chronological point of view. The Legions’ baths
functioning during the Flavians were the oldest ones.1 After they were demolished
during the Traiarfs period, a valetudinarinm was erected there, which covered the
whole insule of the dimensions 81,90 x 72,90 m, which is an approximate equi-
valent of the area of 270 x 240 Roman feet.2 Numismatic data seem to indicate that
during the reign of Caracalla the military hospital was abandoned by the legionists.
The construction underwent a gradual destruction, although we know that in the
eastern and western wings there were some works conducted which aimed at adapt-
ing some rooms of the former hospital to new functions. The scope of the works and
their purpose is not known to us yet. From earlier research it turned out that at least
till the beginning of the 4th century, the area of the hospital was treated as a kind
of a ąuarry. Later there was the Late Roman villa erected, called by its discoverers
— "a Building with Porticoes".3 This picture underwent, however, a considerable
change, when a wide-surface exploration of valetudinarium was started. Some later
constructions were disassembled, so that the researchers could reach archaeological
layers, not accessible so far. Research of the so-called JL Street have turned out to
be especially interesting. The said Street went to the north from the J building
belonging to the complex of the afore-mentioned villa. The Street was discovered
along a smali fragment during the First excavation campaign in 1960.4 Finds, in-
cluding coins, suggested that the said Street and the J building with the L portico
were erected in the mid-4th century A.D.5 Not a long time afterwards, the First im-
portant reconstruction was madę during the Valentinian’s reign.6 Intercolumnia
were covered, so bases of the columns were also covered. After the late walls were
removed, it turned out that the bases, or rather socles which constituted bases for the
columns in the L portico, are about 0,50 m lower than the level of the late Street and
they can be connected with an earlier phase.7 The original level of the Street was
madę with very great care of precisely adjusted sandstone boards. They were madę
Warszawa
VIA INSCRIPTIONUM AT NOYAE
As a result of the research conducted so far by the Archaeological Research
Centre at the University of Warsaw along the IV section in Novae, it was noted that
within its borders there were three constructions of considerable sizes, different
from one another from the chronological point of view. The Legions’ baths
functioning during the Flavians were the oldest ones.1 After they were demolished
during the Traiarfs period, a valetudinarinm was erected there, which covered the
whole insule of the dimensions 81,90 x 72,90 m, which is an approximate equi-
valent of the area of 270 x 240 Roman feet.2 Numismatic data seem to indicate that
during the reign of Caracalla the military hospital was abandoned by the legionists.
The construction underwent a gradual destruction, although we know that in the
eastern and western wings there were some works conducted which aimed at adapt-
ing some rooms of the former hospital to new functions. The scope of the works and
their purpose is not known to us yet. From earlier research it turned out that at least
till the beginning of the 4th century, the area of the hospital was treated as a kind
of a ąuarry. Later there was the Late Roman villa erected, called by its discoverers
— "a Building with Porticoes".3 This picture underwent, however, a considerable
change, when a wide-surface exploration of valetudinarium was started. Some later
constructions were disassembled, so that the researchers could reach archaeological
layers, not accessible so far. Research of the so-called JL Street have turned out to
be especially interesting. The said Street went to the north from the J building
belonging to the complex of the afore-mentioned villa. The Street was discovered
along a smali fragment during the First excavation campaign in 1960.4 Finds, in-
cluding coins, suggested that the said Street and the J building with the L portico
were erected in the mid-4th century A.D.5 Not a long time afterwards, the First im-
portant reconstruction was madę during the Valentinian’s reign.6 Intercolumnia
were covered, so bases of the columns were also covered. After the late walls were
removed, it turned out that the bases, or rather socles which constituted bases for the
columns in the L portico, are about 0,50 m lower than the level of the late Street and
they can be connected with an earlier phase.7 The original level of the Street was
madę with very great care of precisely adjusted sandstone boards. They were madę