Optatiana (castra)
Optatiana was a fort in the Roman province of Dacia. The ruins are located on the left bank of Almaș river, in the village of Sutoru.
It was located on the former road between Napoca and Largiana/Porolissum and like the other forts of Limes Porolissensis it was constructed in two phases: an initial wood and earth structure, and a second one from stone. During the second phase it reached a size of 165x 200m. It is possible that numerus Mauretorum was stationed at the location.
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- ^ Cociș, Sorin; Lăzărescu, Vlad-Andrei; Socaciu, Sergiu-Traian (2022). "Cercetările arheologice din castrul și vicus-ul de la Sutor (2001-2021)". Cercetări Arheologice (in Romanian). 29.1 (1): 83–130. doi:10.46535/ca.29.1.05.
- ^ "Repertoriul Arheologic Naţional". ran.cimec.ro. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
- ^ Boragno, Lorenzo (6 January 2022). "The iron of the Empire: the production of iron made military equipment in the province of Dacia (AD 106 - AD 270)" (PDF). HAL. p. 297. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
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