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Antler (bone) laths from Cuccium (Ilok)

When the Romans conquered the area around Ilok in the first century AD, it became part of Lower Illyricum. After Trajan’s division of Pannonia into Upper and Lower sections, Ilok, i.e. Cuccium (Ilok), was part of Lower Pannonia until Diocletian’s division and after Cuccium was part of Pannonia Secunda (Sirmiensis). Cuccium was an important point in this part of the Danubian Limes, on strategically place where the Danube was easy to cross. The site of the fortress has still not been discovered but data about the Roman settlement (fort) of Cuccium are preserved in several Itineraries, with different forms of name: Cucci, Catio, Cuccio, Cuccium, Cuccis castelum. Thus Notitia Dignitatum mentions two cavalry units in Cuccium: Cuneus equitarum promotorum and Equitas sagittarii. Antler (bone) laths confirmed presence of Equitas sagittarii. They are finding in deposit with late antiquity: money, fibula, glass and ceramics. Material found in the systematic archaeological excavations conducted by the Institute of Archaeology in 2006 in the castle of Ilok’s princes. Antler (bone) laths can be found in province situated along the Roman limes from Britannia, Germania Superior, Germania Inferior, Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia, Moesia Superior, Syria to Aegyptus.

Antler ; Bone ; Laths ; Crossbow ; Cuccium ; Ilok

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