SAMUM
(Căşei) Cluj, Romania.
An important military center at the N frontier of Dacia identified
by inscriptions. Both camp and vicus were on the right
bank of the Someş, 1.5 km from the modern village.
The earth camp (165 x 165 m) was rebuilt in stone
probably under Hadrian. The enclosure is provided with
internal buttresses for defending the rampart walk. The
gates have semicircular bastions.
Palmyreni sagittari ex Syria and the Cohors I Britannica milliaria civum Romanorum were stationed here.
Inscriptions from the 3d c. attest that the vicus had a
command center at the border under the military jurisdiction and control of a beneficiarius consularis.
Two military diplomas were found here: one from
A.D. 120, the other from 164. Important archaeological
and epigraphic materials can be found in the Dej Museum
and in the History museum of Transylvania at Cluj.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
E. Panaitescu, “Castrul roman de la
Căşeiu. Din cercetările nouă,”
Anuarul Comisiei Monumentelor Istorice, Secţia pentru Transilvania 2 (1929)
327-40; V. Christescu,
Istoria militară a Daciei romane
(1937) 136-37.
L. MARINESCU
