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Dacians on the Southern Bank of the Danube

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

A. Alföldi
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A new military diploma, acquired by the Hungarian National Museum (pls. ii, iii, I), furnishes us with fresh evidence of Dacian settlements south of the Danube. We publish this new document with the kind permission of Professor Paulovics, Keeper of Roman Antiquities in that museum. Only the front leaf of the diploma has been discovered; the statement of the dealer, that it was found in the Danube near Nicopol in Bulgaria, is trustworthy. The tablet is slightly damaged on the right top of the front side, but this does not obscure the reading; it measures 94 by 118 millimetres and is 1·5 millimetres thick. It weighs 113·15 grammes.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , 1939 , pp. 28 - 31
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Copyright ©A. Alföldi 1939. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 JRS xxiv, 1934, 126Google Scholar f., 129. Cf. also Premerstein, A. v., Jahreshefte d. Österr. Arch. Inst. i, Beibl. 156Google Scholar f., and in the same review xxix, 1934, 70 f.; Patsch, C., Beiträge zur Völkerkunde von Südosteuropa V/1 (Sitzungsber., Akad. d. Wiss. in Wien, phil.- hist. Kl., Bd. 214, Abh. 1), 1932, 113;Google Scholar E. Groag, PIR 2 no. 157; Miltner, F., Klio xxx, 1937, 200Google Scholar ff.

2 ILS 986. The modern literature is noticed in CAH xi, 1934, 85,Google Scholar n. 4.

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4 Personal names such as Dasas, Dases, Dasianus, Dasius, Dasmus, Daza, Dazas, Dazanus, Dazios, Daziscos, etc., are very common among Illyrians. Cf. Krahe, H., Lexikon altillyrischer Personennamen (Indogerm. Bibl., Bd. 9, Abt. iii), 1929, 34Google Scholar ff.

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6 Casson, S., JRS xvii, 1927, 97Google Scholar ff.

7 A complete list of the c. 2300 personal names of the inscriptions of Dacia will be published shortly by my pupil, A. Kerényi.