Zgodovinskih romanov, ki bi obravnavali tematiko, postavljeno v čas antike, je v slovenski literaturi bolj malo. Zato pa je izid romana, uokvirjenega v to dobo, še kako dobrodošla novost, ki jo je ...potrebno primerno izpostaviti in ovrednotiti, ker širi vedenje in znanje o času rimskega imperija, še posebej, če se je avtor romanu posvetil po natančnem študiju zgodovinskih, arheoloških in filoloških virov, ki obravnavajo izbrani čas.
Summary
Traces of Mithraism in Slovenia are represented by a large number of Mithraea and finds of altars and stones carved with Mithraic symbols. Some of these have been systematically studied and ...are quite well-known, others are poorly documented and less known. This difference is largely a consequence of factors from antiquity, such as the social status of the dedicators of the monuments and the choice of the location.
Our contribution focuses on the location of these shrines in north-eastern Slovenia, especially at Drava Plain and Ager of Poetovio, one of the most important Mithraic centres. The questions we explore are: where and in what environment were Mithraea built; what is their relationship to other urban structures, traffic routes, natural resources and topography; and what role do they have in their setting within provincial and city boundaries.
The results of our analysis show the heterogeneity of responses to these questions and, consequently, the vitality of the cult of Mithras in the study area.
This study concerns the microfacies characterization of white and black limestone tesserae from selected Roman floor mosaics in Slovenia, with the aim of defining their provenance. We investigated 42 ...tesserae from 15 different mosaics from the archaeological sites of Ljubljana, Izola, Mošnje, Ptuj, Črnomelj and Šentpavel, dated from the first century bc to the fifth century ad. Among the studied tesserae, 13 different microfacies were identified: eight black and five white. The most common were mudstones with ostracods (65% of black tesserae) and wacke‐packstones with miliolids (85% of white tesserae). The majority of the identified facies can be found in the Cretaceous successions of the Dinaric Carbonate Platform in south‐western Slovenia, north‐eastern Italy and south‐eastern Croatia, suggesting a regional or imported origin of the tesserae.
The author of the present paper based herself on archives and printed newspaper sources to present extraordinary winter extreme weather events in the Ptuj area between 1700 and 1941. Extreme weather ...events have been affecting man's everyday life since always and changing his living environment. Data about the extreme weather events that Ptuj citizens had to live through were recorded by chroniclers. All town chronicles read about severe winters, ice on the river Drava which represented the major obstacle, and consequently floods in the town in 18th and until the mid-20th century. The Ptuj citizens focused on particular on the frozen Drava in 1766, the event that was represented on a votive painting The Ice on the River Drava by a local painter, Franz Josef Fellner. Ptuj district office set up a crisis management board each time the river froze in order to monitor the foreseen danger and protect and save the citizens by following strict measures. Although the then town administration had a system of information and action due to repeated floods and frequent icy winters to quickly resolve the situation after each flood and melting ice, the town needed a lot of energy, will and financial resources to redevelop, and the reconstruction was carried out slow; the renovation processes were also slow due to additional financial burdens rather long. In 1896 the Municipality of Ptuj decided to build a new Drava embankment between the two bridges (road and railway) in the length of 236 meters. Between 1897 and 1907 river banks were strengthened with supportive walls. With this investment, they protected the lower part of the town from further floods. The Drava embankment with supportive walls between the two bridges protects the lower part of the town Ptuj from floods even in the 21st century.
The hill of Panorama in Ptuj is one of the most important areas of Roman Poetovio. Chance finds and small-scale excavations in the past centuries have revealed the existence of significant ...archaeological remains that included buildings with numerous rooms and objects dedicated to a variety of deities, the remains of a sanctuary dedicated to the Nutrices, an Early Christian church, an aqueduct and a cemetery. The geophysical investigations have revealed the urban design with a rectilinear grid of streets and building plots.The first few chapters of the book present the history of archaeological research on Panorama, the analytical approaches and the geophysical investigations with the methods employed and the final results. The main chapters correlate the archaeological data of differing quality and nature (chance finds, rescue excavations, old and modern archaeological investigations, geophysical surveys) and locate them with a series of plans. The comprehensive overview is supported by a Catalogue of stone monuments that presents the basic data, descriptions, bibliography, commentary and photographs of the stone objects recovered on Panorama.
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