This article deals with oral tradition which refers to the south-eastern periphery of the land that belongs to the village Drnovo pri Krškem (Roman Municipium Neviodunum). There are two important ...localities named Sap and Bore. Especially the latter locality is known as a place of numerous oral traditions which are connected with supernatural beings, and it is also known as a location of the “Roman gate”. With the introduction of material and intangible circumstances, we are trying to understand the formation of the tradition of “Roman gate”. It turns out that we need a broader review. We are attempting to highlight the location with information of the field partition and archaeology. Results show that the area of Sap-Bore represents the south-eastern border of land that belongs to village Drnovo and it also coincides with the southeast Roman necropolis of Neviodunum. A similar situation is repeated in other necropolises of Neviodunum. With mapping of points of supernatural experiences, the image of the mythical landscape of Drnovo is drawn. The extent of mythical landscape is limited with the archaeological remains of Neviodunum. In this regard, the area of Sap-Bore stands out as one of the liminal points of the mythical landscape of Drnovo. Accordingly, the meaning of the tradition of Roman gates and supernatural experiences at this location are more evident. In this way, shaped topographical unit as a mythical unit of inhabitants of Drnovo (the settlement of which sat right above the Roman ruins) the process of the appropriation of Roman history into the narration of their own origins was taking place.
The article deals with a Roman tombstone discovered in 2008 during the renovation of the façade of the church of St. Peter at Jezero near Trebnje, which mentioned two town magistrates of Celeia, ...Gaius Longinius Severinus, and his son, Longinius Avitus. The circumstances of the discovery are described, as are other worked Roman stones reused in the church wall, the history of the church, the method of presentation and conservation of the monuments, the results of the geological analysis of the stones, and the geophysical investigation of the site. The description of the monument is followed by a textual analysis and historical commentary. The list of town magistrates of Celeia, who were previously attested mostly on inscriptions from the southern part of the province of Noricum, has thus been supplemented for the first time with this newly found inscription from the province of Pannonia
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