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The setting and the site
The region between the Danube and The Black Sea, located in southeastern modern-day Romania, called Dobruja (fig. 1B), was split between Greek-influenced littoral area and an inner part dominated in turns by local and migrating peoples in the second part of the 1st millennium B.C. The Roman influence in Dobruja started early in the 1st century B.C. during the Mithridatic wars and was completed with its annexation and integration into the existing Roman province of Moesia Inferior, after 46 A.D. The status quo was mostly maintained for the littoral region and the Greek cities present there. For the inner part of the region, the situation changed and numerous rural settlements were founded within newly created imperial administrative units like the regio Histriae, where the study area is located (Bâltâc, 2011).
The site near Beidaud is situated on a high terrace ...
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