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July 2023 - June 2024
Ana Honcu is an Early Career Researcher in Ancient History. Her research focuses on the provinces of Dacia and Moesia Inferior and involved epigraphic investigation as main research method. Ana's PhD thesis, undertaken at the University Alexandru Iona Cuza from Iasi, examined the edilitary phenomenon in the provinces of Dacia and Moesia Inferior, published in 2022. With the support of ATLAS FMSH postdoctoral fellowship in September-October 2021 Ana has also undertaken an extensive research on this topic in the Northern shore of the Black Sea. Currently, Ana’s research focuses on the application of ArcGIS in the epigraphy. For this research, she held fellowship at Babeș-Bolyai University (September-October 2022).
Her ICUB project (Dimissi honesta missionis. Mobility and insertion of veterans in local society of Moesia Superior) aims to highlight the impact of veterans on the life of the province from the moment of their discharge in Moesia Superior and the explanation of their role in the provincial society. Veterans as a relatively rich and legally privileged group in the Roman Empire created, in their places of retirement (mainly in the border provinces), intensive military settlements, which were one of the important factors in the Romanization of the limes. Therefore, the study of the role of veterans in the provincial life of Moesia Superior will significantly expand the overall understanding of the society in this province. The province of Moesia Superior was selected as an area of interest because it had a significant military presence, therefore a representative number of inscriptions, which can be used as indicators for the three measured variables: veterans, their origin and place of settlement. The project will use interdisciplinary and scientific methods, such as interactive maps, spatial analysis in ArcGIS, and database analyses. These analyses will provide a basis for a wider synthesis and questions of global connectivity and mobility in the ancient world.