In recent decades, several Roman Period sites, from villas to urban centres, have been studied archaeozoologically in present-day Slovenia, providing a solid understanding of the characteristics of ...animal husbandry in the first three centuries AD. Much less is known about the production, supply, and use of animal resources in Late Antiquity, mainly due to the meagre amount of (published) data. Of late, however, the study of a handful of contexts from the 4
th
to 7
th
centuries AD has provided an opportunity to gain deeper insights into the cultural changes and transformations in animal husbandry triggered by the unstable political and security conditions of the period. Among the topics addressed are how the intensity of production, the taxonomic richness of livestock, local and transregional supply systems, and the social stratification of the population changed in the turmoil of the collapsing empire. The archaeozoological results were complemented by relevant data reported by ancient authors to contextualise them better. It is suggested that late antique communities in the study area tended to be economically self-sufficient. Animal husbandry seems to have been based on relatively small specimens of primitive local forms, with the keeping of pigs and sheep gradually replacing cattle husbandry in scale.
During archaeological excavations in 2014 in the meadow called Marof in Ig, in addition to the first Roman cemetery to be discovered in this area, an architectural funerary stele was also found. The ...inscription reads that the gravestone was erected for Petto and his family, whose members bore both Roman and local names characteristic for the Ig area: Petto, Cotiu (Otiu?), Bugia, Quarta, Rustius (Rusticus?), and Firmus. The stele was found broken into three parts and together with other dressed stones lay in a pit from Late Antiquity. The article describes the stele in more detail, interprets the inscription, and particularly provides possible interpretations for the (deliberate?) deposition of the Roman stones in the pit.
The article contains a new attempt at delimiting the territory of the Roman city of Poetovio. It is a topic tackled in few studies by the past and the article begins with their brief presentation. In ...the absence of boundary stones or other clear markers, the boundary was sought through the use of Thiessen polygons and GIS analyses, which were then compared to the few existing literary sources, as well as archaeological and epigraphic finds. The results enabled a theoretical boundary of Poetovio’s territory to be proposed, with the most problematic part being its northern boundary.
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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