[1470] The legion probably took up a permanent position in the province of Noricum after the emperor's Germanic-Sarmatian triumph in 176 AD, when order had been restored to the provinces along the middle-Danube. Van de Weerd Mus. Belge VII 1903, 101-103 tries to prove (with CIL IX 2593) II Italica's presence in Noricum from 174 AD on, at the latest. The provincial governor also became legionary legate. The legionary camp at Albing apparently was built for and by the legion at this time or shortly later. (It was discovered by the Österreichische Limesforschung in 1904 and 1905; cp. Der Römische Limes in Österreich VIII 1907, 157-172 pl. III). A small number of tile stamps, completely different from those at Lotschitz, give evidence for a link between this camp and II Italica, and for her building activity there (loc. cit. p. 172 pl. 84). However, even this camp was occupied by the legion for only a short time, probably, because it had been placed on an island in the Danube and was too exposed to floods and a rising groundwater table. Perhaps still under Commodus, a new camp, Lauriacum, was erected on better suited ground only 5 km away, near the [confluence of the Danube and its] tributary Enns. (Excavations there were done also by the Österreichische Limesforschung from 1904 on: Der Römische Limes in Österreich VII 5-46. VIII 119-156. IX 1908 87-116. X 1909, 79-114. XI 1910, 1-33). This camp's banner sanctuary [“Fahnenheiligtum”] altar, which was dedicated by the primipilus to the legion's genius on the 18th of September 191 AD, also shows the camp's interior structures were complete by this date. Therefore, the construction must have started at least several years earlier. The legion stayed in this camp from the end of the second century to the end of Roman rule in Noricum Ripense, cp. Itin. Anton. p. 249, 1, where the "III" in "Lauriaco mp. XX leg. III" has been mistaken for "II I(talica)" (Not. dign. occ. XXXIV 39). The large building inscription, which originally dates from 205 AD, and of which there must have been several examples within the camp's premises, cannot mean the erection of the camp itself. Perhaps, it could be attributed to the reconstruction and adornment [“Wiederherstellung und Ausschmückung”] of one of the interior buildings, probably the principia’s courtyard. (The inscription fragments were published and supplemented by Bormann in Der Römische Limes in Österreich XI 129-136). The legion's building activity, which is certainly to be taken for granted, was explicitly noted in the last line, added between 211 and 217 AD (Bormann 135). The high level of building activity within the camp is evidenced by the large amount of the legion’s stamped tiles, which were probably manufactured not too far away from the camp itself (cp. CIL III 5757, 1a. c. e. k. l. n. g. r. t. u. 11849 f. g. h., as well as III p. 963 no. 11. p. 964 no. 17 and 18; found during the systematic excavations: Der Römische Limes in Österreich VII 1906, 31f, pl. 45, 1-8. XI 1910, 49ff. pl. 23, 1-12, together with a graffito IIII NONAS AUGUST[AS] ISAURICUS.