216 Florin Fodorean person, Lucius Calpurnius, <strong>de</strong>dicate another inscription to Jupiter, also pro salute imperatoris 32 . An officer (centurio) from legio V Macedonica <strong>de</strong>dicates an altar to Jupiter 33 . All these examples show that Germisara was intensively visited. Maybe the most interesting example to sustain what we already highlighted above is the inscription IDR III/3, 243. This is a votive altar i<strong>de</strong>ntified by the middle of the XVI th century in Orăştie, where the text was copied by M. Singler. The <strong>de</strong>dicant, a signifer from the military trooped garrisoned in Cigmău, close to Germisara, raises the monument because he escape the danger of <strong>de</strong>ath maybe after he benefited of the qualities of the thermal waters. The inscription dated from 186 AD. 4. Ad Aquas (Călan) This settlement is represented in Tabula Peutingeriana with vignette. Călan is positioned on the left bank of the Strei River, at the altitu<strong>de</strong> of 230 m. The thermal water resources are positioned circa 2 kilometers north of the current city (Fig. 3). During Roman times, the same point was positioned exactly along the main imperial road of the province. The settlement had the status of pagus, as the inscriptions prove (pagus Aquensis). Archaeologically, today we can still visit the Roman basin, directly cut in the rock 34 . It encloses a total perimeter of circa 94 m (length of 14.2 m, width of 7.2 m and a <strong>de</strong>pth of 4 m). The water source is still active today. The water of these sources has an average temperature of 23°–24°. Epigraphically, we know that this settlement was also intensively visited in the Roman era. Six inscriptions are published in IDR III/3 (no. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11). Among those who came here, we mention Quintus Decius Vin<strong>de</strong>x, financial procurator of Dacia Superior. He erected a monument for Fortunae Augustae 35 . Another important character who visited Ad Aquae was Caius Iulius Marcianus, <strong>de</strong>curion in Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa and also member in the administrative staff of pagus Aquensis. 5. Ad Mediam – Băile Herculane The third point on the map of Roman Dacia with thermal waters is Băile Herculane 36 . During Roman times it was also intensively visited. The name of the settlement also appears in the work of the Anonymous of Ravenna (Medilas). The Roman ruins were discovered during the 18 th century (Fig. 4). During the Habsburgic and Austro-Hungarian Empire the name of the settlement was Herkulesbad/Herkulesfürdő. The discoveries consist of water pipes, basins, public and private buildings, sanctuaries, altars with inscriptions <strong>de</strong>dicated to the gods of the health, statues of divinities and votive reliefs, funerary inscriptions, reliefs and funerary monuments, sarcophagi, stamped tiles of several military troops (legio VII Claudia, XIII Gemina, IV Flavia Felix), coins. Roman Ad Mediam was a totally different settlement, separated from the military fortress from today’s Mehadia, where cohors III Delmatarum was garrisoned. Only from 1817 the settlement received an official name. In 1736 begins the reconstruction and the mo<strong>de</strong>rnization of the ‘baths’. Most of the new buildings carry the imprint of an impressive Austrian Baroque style. The thermal settlement is visited by important people: emperor Josef II, Emperor Francis I, emperor Franz Josef. In 1852, Herculane was consi<strong>de</strong>red the most beautiful thermal settlement of Europe. Numerous inscriptions are <strong>de</strong>dicated to Hercules, which was the protector of the thermal waters 37 . 32 IDR III/3, 235. 33 IDR III/3, 237. 34 RUSU/PESCARU 1996, 23–24. 35 IDR III/3, 7. 36 BOZU/MICLI 2005, 123–42. 37 19 inscriptions published in IDR III/1 (no. 54 to 68).
“Spa” Vignettes in Tabula Peutingeriana. Travelling Ad Aquas One of the most interesting inscriptions found in Băile Herculane is a votive altar of marble, 73 × 37 × 30 cm. The base and the upper part have an elegant, symmetric shape. This monument stood a while actually built in the wall of the bridge over the Cerna River, within the thermal settlement 38 . This is an outstanding example with direct reference to the healing 38 IDR III/1, no. 55. 217
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