Source Data for municipium Aelium Mogionibus (Környe, Komárom-Esztergom County, Hungary)

Abstract

Archaeological excavations and inscriptions discovered on site point towards the existence of an EarlyImperial Period urban settlement under the area of the present-day village Környe (Komárom-Esztergom County), established in thecivitas Azaliorumregion, most probably on the territory ofthe Mogiones tribe. On some of the inscriptions possibly related to the name of the Early ImperialEra settlement, unearthed on site and in the immediate neighbourhood, a striking abbreviation,MOG appears. According to the Inotapuszta (Bakonycsernye) diploma and a Roman urban laterculus,there stood in Pannonia an urban settlement known by the name of Mogionibus as well. The resultsof the excavations conducted in Környe in the period 1939–2016, local inscriptions and a newlypublished milestone discovered in Tata (Komárom-Esztergom County) are all witnesses to theexistence of a municipium named rather Mogionibus such as Mogionensium on the territory ofthe present village of Környe. The municipium existed between the reigns of Hadrian and Gallienus.Before 214, it belonged to the urban network of Pannonia Superior, while after 214, to that ofPannonia Inferior.