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Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Ripa Pannonica in Hungary (RPH) Nomination statement The first military survey of the Habsburg Empire at the end of the 18 th century, the so-called maps of Joseph II, represented a significant new step forward in this development. Numerous archeological remains can be found on these map plates, including many of the visible or likely traces along the Roman limes. The officers performing the surveys marked quite a few earthworks (“Schantze”), old walls (“altes Gemauer”) and ruins (“rudera”). It is well known that during the Napoleonic Wars new earthworks were erected atop the Roman fortifications of Matrica (Százhalombatta-Dunafüred). It is for just this reason that it is very important that the map naturally depicts the castellum of Matrica without these later earthworks, quite clearly and precisely in fact. Fig. 6 Almost as important in researching the structures of the limes was the second military survey as well, which took place between 1806 and 1869. Quite a few Roman fortresses and watch towers can be discovered on these plates, including a section of Brigetio’s aqueducts to the north of Tata, the fortress of Odiavum (Almásfüzitő) further to the north and on the northern section of Csepel Island what is perhaps a Roman fortlet. In Érd the limes road climbed up to the top of the plateau for the most part along a ditch that cuts deeply into the surface where the present-day Római Street runs. The path of the Roman road could be easily recognized in the past, but this is only possible in certain places today. Its earliest known depiction is from Sámuel Mikoviny. 128
Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Ripa Pannonica in Hungary (RPH) Nomination statement Fig. 7 The nearly dead-straight ancient marked road stretched from Érd to Kisapostag. The text: Via Regia lapidibus strata per regem Ladislaum facta. A later depiction based on a precise survey was made in 1814, when Benjamin Chiapo [Csapó], the official land surveyor of Fejér County surveyed its traces between Érd and Pentele. Its map is titled the ‘Planum exhibens faciem viae Romanae et modernae penes Danubium decurrentis nec non planum libellationis elaboratum’ (Csapó, OL Térképtár, S-12, Div. XIII No. 424). The first part of the map depicts the Érd-Százhalombatta section and the second the section extending to Pentele. Fig. 8 Water management surveys began in the 18 th century. These precisely recorded the conditions prior to river regulation, which is important for limes research, as well as several of the Roman watch towers that were visible near the banks. 129
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