Tibiscum

Tibiscum
Porta principalis sinistra
Location within Romania
Alternative name(s)	Tibisco, Tivisco, Tibiscus, Tibiskon, Tiriskon
Known also as	Castra of Jupa
Founded during the reign of	Trajan
Founded	c. 101 AD
Abandoned	c. 6th-7th century AD
Attested by	Tabula Peutingeriana
Previous fortification	Dacian
Place in the Roman world
Province	Dacia
Administrative unit	Dacia Apulensis
Administrative unit	Dacia Superior
Structure
— Stone structure —
Size and area	307 m × 170 m (5.4 ha)
Stationed military units
— Cohorts —
I Sagittariorum I Vindelicorum milliaria equitata
— Numeri —
Maurorum Tibiscensium Palmyrenorum Tibiscensium
Location
Coordinates	45.4663°N 22.1895°E / 45.4663; 22.1895
Altitude	c. 180 m
Town	Jupa
County	Caraș-Severin
Country	Romania
Reference
RO-LMI	CS-I-s-A-10805
RO-RAN	51038.01
Site notes
Recognition	National Historical Monument
Condition	Ruined
Excavation dates	1924–1925 1980–1990
Archaeologists	Doina Benea G. G. Mateescu Ioan Boroș

Tibiscum (Tibisco, Tibiscus, Tibiskon) was a Dacian town mentioned by Ptolemy, later a Roman castra and municipium. The ruins of the ancient settlement are located in Jupa, Caraș-Severin County, Romania.

See also

• Dacian davae
• List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia
• List of castra
• Dacia
• Roman Dacia

References

Ancient

• Anonymous. Tabula Peutingeriana (in Latin).
• Ptolemy, Claudius (c. 140). Geographia [Geography] (in Ancient Greek). Sumptibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitii.

Modern

• Olteanu, Sorin. "Ptolemy's Dacia". Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum (in Romanian and English). Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
• Schütte, Gudmund (1917). Ptolemy's maps of northern Europe, a reconstruction of the prototypes. The Royal Danish Geographical Society. Retrieved 4 May 2013.