Early Roman horrea at Nauportus Horvat, Jana
Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité,
2008, Letnik:
120, Številka:
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A vicus of Nauportus, situated on the northeastern edge of the territory of the colony of Aquileia, held a key position at the junction between land routes leading from northeastern Italy and Istria ...and water routes leading eastwards to Pannonia. The settlement of the Augustan period was built at the bend of the Ljubljanica river. It was fortified with a defense wall and towers as well as a defense ditch. An extensive square was located in the center of the site, encircled by a colonnade and large storehouses in rows. The plan of the entire settlement and the individual buildings correspond with the examples found in the Late Republican towns in northern Italy, as well as with the architecture of the ports throughout the whole Empire. It is clearly manifested in the architecture, that the settlement was a trade, traffic, storage and reloading post as well as a river port.
The region of Ptuj lies on one of the central traffic axes within the broader margins of the Eastern Alps, and already in the distant past represented an important settlement centre. This monograph ...incorporates the knowledge hitherto gained abouth settlement history, from the Eneolithic to the Early Middle Ages in the eastern area of Ptuj, in Rabelčja vas. The emphasis is on the Roman Period, when the eastern district of the Roman town of Poetovio was beginning to spread here.Within the area of Rabelčja vas, which comprises nearly one-third of the Roman town of Poetovio, over a period of two centuries more than 160 discoveries and researches have taken place. During the past four decades, extensive rescue excavations have been carried out here, which have revealed numerous prehistorical remains, and also the eastern, crafts quarter of the ancient town, together with the main road and extensive burial sites.
The Early Roman trading post at Dolge njive formed a part of Nauportus - a vicus on the town territory of Aquileia. The site was investigated using various geophysical methods: geoelectric ...resistivity, electrical conductivity, magnetometry, and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). The results are presented in view of the complementarity of these methods. The data from earlier archaeological excavations were used to plan an appropriate and effective research strategy. The results from geophysical prospecting were combined with the ground plans resulting from former excavations and a new ground plan of the trading post was engendered. A 3D portrayal of the architectural remains was enabled by georadar sounding. The site was fortified with a defence wall and towers as well as a defence ditch. One third of the interior surface was covered by the market place, which was surrounded by storehouses (horrea) with a portico and tabernae. An ambulatory type temple was also found here. Similar architecture is known primarily from Republican set-tlements in Italy and from Roman ports. The chronology of the small finds was reviewed and the results place the origins of the site in the Pre-Augustan or Early Augustan periods, and its decline in the 1st century AD.
The following results from excavations carried out in 1987 at Sermin near Koper are presented in the monograph: the extent of the settlement, the stratigraphy, the remains of Bronze Age houses and ...Roman levelling of the ground. Metal, glass and bone material finds, as well as Prehistoric and Roman pottery, are analyzed in detail. It was determined that settlement was of long duration, probably continuous from the Middle Neolithic to the middle of the 1st century AD. Due tot ehir abundance, material finds dating to the Middle and Late Bronze Ages as well as the Early Roman period are more striking. The settlement at Sermin was constantly situated in the middle of trade and cultural currents between Italy, the Balkans and the Mediterranean region. The material finds are also an indication of the significance of the settlement during the period of the earliest Romanization. Attesting the plentiful production of wine and amphorae along the Adriatic coast of Italy already from the middle of the 2nd centruy BC, the archaeological chapters are complemented by chemical and mineralogical research on the ceramics of the amphorae. The paleo-vegetational conditions in the coastal region of Koper are presented at the end. The development of settlement in the region of northwestern Istria from Prehistoric times to the Early Middle Ages is described in the supplement.
Planina Klek sodi med najstarejša pašna področja na Pokljuki, v regiji pa so bila najdena tudi rimska, poznoantična in zgodnjesrednjeveška arheološka najdišča. V tem članku predstavljamo rezultate ...palinoloških in pedoloških raziskav, ki kažejo na razmeroma zgoden vpliv človeka na okolje alpskih habitatov, kar je – morda že v bronasti dobi – povzročilo erozijo tal in spremembo v sestavi vegetacije. Pelod, značilen za travnike, pašnike in ruderalna območja se pojavi že po pribl. 4000 cal. BC, prva pelodna zrna žitaric pa nekoliko kasneje, verjetno v pozni prazgodovini, pred pribl. 500 cal. BC (točno starost je težko določiti).
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