Recent Excavations on the Amphitheatre of Viminacium (Upper Moesia)

Abstract

Viminacium is located in Eastern Serbia. It is situated on the right bank of the Mlava River, close to its confluence with the Danube River (fig. 1). Based on archaeological excavations, the areas of the legionary fortress and of the civil settlement were defined (fig. 2)1. At first, a military camp was built. Here the legion VII Claudia was stationed from the third quarter of the 1st century AD (Mirković 1968, 25-26; 2003, 40-42; Tončinić 2011, 14). Next to the camp, a settlement developed and became the capital of the province of Moesia Superior and later of Moesia Prima.