This paper aims to provide information about the discovery of a small villa rustica located in Columbrella (Mondragone, Campania). The structure was built on an artificial terrace on Monte Massico ...chain, one of the most fertile areas of the region, and it has a productive sector, probably for wine making and olive oil production; furthermore, part of the residential area has been brought to light. in this sector we discovered almost exclusively cement pavements (cocciopesto) decorated with tesserae. The purpose of archaeological excavation is to provide a deeper understanding of settlement patterns and productive systems of this region, essential elements for the reconstruction of rural landscapes in Campania.
In the summer of 2020, a fragmentary lower part of a statue base with a Latin
inscription carved on its underside was accidentally discovered in Vinca, in
the area of the archaeological site of ...Osljane. The remains of ? Roman
building (presumably a villa rustica) were located at the aforementioned
site. After the discovery, the monument was stolen, then it was soon
recovered and transferred to the National Museum of Serbia. The inscription
records the career of a member of the equestrian order.
Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) methods have been increasingly used in various shallow depth archaeological prospections in the last few decades. These non‐invasive techniques can save time, ...costs, and efforts in archaeological prospection and yield detailed images of subsurface anomalies. We present the results of quasi‐three‐dimensional (3D) ERT measurements in an area of a presumed Roman construction, using a dense electrode network of parallel and orthogonal profiles in dipole–dipole configuration. A roll‐along technique has been utilized to cover a large part of the archaeological site with a 25 cm electrode and profile spacing, respectively. We have designed a new field procedure, which used an electrode array fixed in a frame. This facilitated a very efficient field operation, and overall a total of 9648 electrode positions were occupied. The 3D ERT inversion results clearly characterize the main structures of the Roman foundations. We compared our high‐resolution 3D electrical resistivity model with findings from archaeological excavations, which have been done in some parts of the surveyed area. The ERT result coincide well with the excavation results, i.e. the location as well as the vertical and horizontal extensions of the structures could be precisely imaged. The ERT results successfully images most parts of the walls, pits and also smaller internal structures of the Roman building; moreover, excavation ditches that had been refilled prior to the ERT survey are delineated as resistivity heterogeneities as well.
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Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa paints a picture of what life might have been like for the inhabitants of the villa in the late third and fourth centuries AD. The villa today, in the ...Darent Valley, Kent, has an unusual amount of well-preserved evidence for its interior decoration and architecture. Seventy years on from the commencement of the excavation of the site, this study draws on the original reports but also embraces innovative approaches to examining the archaeological evidence and sheds new light on our understanding of the villa's use. For the first time, the site of Lullingstone Roman Villa is surveyed holistically, developing a plausible argument that the inhabitants used domestic space to assert their status and cultural identity.
An exploration of the landscape setting asks whether property location was as important a factor in the time of Roman Britain as it is today and probes the motives of the villa's architects and their client. Lullingstone's celebrated mosaics are also investigated from a fresh perspective. Why were these scenes chosen and what impact did they have on various visitors to the villa? Comparison with some contemporary Romano-British villas allows us to assess whether Lullingstone is what we would expect, or whether it is exceptional. Examples from the wider Roman world are also introduced to enquire how Lullingstone's residents adopted Roman architecture and potentially the social customs which accompanied it.
Geophysical prospection techniques are widely used to visualize the buried past. Various methods such as magnetometry, electric resistance mapping and electric resistivity tomography and ground ...penetrating radar yield different results. The use of all three techniques in combination with aerial photography interpretation and pedological mapping is highly effective, but it requires a multi-layer approach. This paper presents such a multi-layer approach carried out at a site with buried remnants of a Roman
villa rustica in southern Germany. The integration of the various results into a geographical information system leads to a geocodation of all outcomes and a final archaeological interpretation. Several buildings in different states of preservation, different kinds of ground floors both with and without hypocausts, perimeter walls and kilns could all be detected. The soil mapping results helped in the geophysical interpretation by outsourcing soil erosion and accumulation areas. It is shown that none of the employed methods could have supplied all the compiled information on their own, and the strengths and weaknesses of each method is discussed in order to point out the implications for archaeologists.
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This paper presents camel remains identified in Roman sites in Serbia. The remains originate from Viminacium, the capital of Roman province Moesia, and from the 3rd–4th century villa rustica in the ...locality of Vranj, in the province of Pannonia. In Viminacium, they were found in a 4th century dump, near the Eastern necropolis of the city, and in the 4th century layers in the area of the amphitheatre. In order to conclude whether these bones belonged to Camelus dromedarius or Camelus bactrianus, measurements and morphology of our specimens were compared with camel bones found at other Roman sites, and with modern specimens. We have identified two-humped camels and also hybrid individuals. The role of the camels is also discussed here: whether they were used in public games (ludi), for military purposes, or as transportation animals. As a conclusion, we acknowledge that camels were not rare animals in Roman provinces as it was considered before.
The territory of Kosovo and Metohia represents a close unit which consists of the two naturally different regions whose geographic, climatic, and soil characteristics conditioned the possibility for ...the development of economic activities, out of which agriculture came to the fore either in cattle breeding or farming. Agriculture was the main economic activity which domestic population was dealing with in the period before Roman conquests. By conquering of this area, the Romans brought new forms of earning activities which were especially being expressed through the organization of agricultural production and the appearance of villa rustica as basic production unit. In the conquered territory there were several extremely agricultural regions suitable for some kinds of agriculture. Valleys of larger rivers, basins, plains, especially in Metohia, the valley of the river Beli Drim, were suitable for the farming development, cultivation of different vegetable crops, horticulture and viticulture. Although different in geomorphologic sense, the area of Kosovo was also mostly of agricultural character, whose arable areas are concentrated in the valleys of the rivers of Binačka Morava, Ibar, Sitnica, Drenica and other smaller rivers. Farming in hilly areas, which mostly relates to the area of Kosovo due to the unfavourable relief, was probably of limited character that is, based upon smaller arable areas being enabled by such conditions. Agriculture in these hilly areas was based upon animal husbandry, that is cattle breeding, and products exchange from this branch of agriculture with cereals from agricultural fenced areas. Besides hilly and mountainous areas, there were favourable conditions for cattle breeding in lower, hilly areas, which were especially related to the transition zone from Kosovo and lower Metohia. This area was suitable since it had possessed good pastures, wherein low and thick forest was suitable for the breed of small cattle such as sheep, goats etc. A considerable part of arable area was during the Roman conquests distributed to the Roman immigrants as evidenced by the appearance of villa rustica as follows: in the valley in the river of Beli Drim near Drsnik, Uroševac, at Ulpiana, in the valley of the river of Lab near Glavnik, in the valley of the river of Ibar near Vučitrn at Donji Stanovci, Valača near Zvečan, and in Vuča near Sočanica. Places where they were registered usually indicated they had been built along river course, wherein right and left river banks had been suitable for cultivation, and their position was conditioned by the proximity of the main communications so as products distribution from the possessions would be easier. Their position was also influenced by the proximity of rural settlements so as to make use of labour force in the possessions during the season works. Data relating to the agricultural production originate from the archaeological researches carried out which were intensive during the second half of the previous century. The achieved data were sparse, and based on them it could be said something very generally on agricultural activities at this area, which left enough open space for some amendments during future researches.
Predijalnim toponimima nazivaju se rimski i ranoromanski toponimi izvedeni od osobnoga imena vlasnika posjeda, obično karakterističnim sufiksom ‐(i)anus/‐(i)ana. U hrvatskoj toponimiji predijalni se ...toponimi ubrajaju u predslavenski sloj. Predijalni su toponimi u doba nastanka obično imenovali ruralna naselja, odnosno naselja manje važnosti, pa ne čudi da su u antičkim vrelima rijet-ko posvjedočeni, tj. da su prve potvrde predijalnih toponima razmjerno kasne. U radu se raspravlja o toponimima na zadarskome području za koje je u literaturi prihvaćeno mišljenje da su predijalnoga postanja. Takvi su suvremeni toponimi Bibinje, Bošana (Biograd), Bošana (Pag), Lukoran, Mrljane, Neviđane, Pašman, Povljana, Ugljan te povijesni toponim Flaveico. Osim njih, u radu se obrađuju i drugi toponimi za koje je u literaturi pretpostavljeno predijalno podrijetlo, npr. Kolan, Žigljan, Čeprljanda, Suisgian, Pagnana. Prva potvrda svakoga od tih toponima potječe iz razdoblja nakon dolaska Slavena na ova područja. Onomastičkom analizom navedenih toponima pokušava se ustanoviti je li uopće riječ o predslavenskome toponimu i je li riječ o predijalnome toponimu, zatim koji je (latinski) antroponim u osnovi predijalnoga toponima te u koje je doba lik toponima posuđen u hrvatski i kako je tekao njegov glasovni razvoj
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