Over the course of studying stone products from the Roman colony of Emona (Regio X), stratigraphically undefined calcarenite that was used to make simple sepulchral and architectural stone products ...was detected. The calcarenite used is late Aptian to early Cenomanian in age. The corresponding facies were found in the Lower Flyschoid Formation outcropping near the town of Medvode, within the local radius of Emona. The Roman quarry was likely located in this area near the Sava River. According to the collected data, the quarry was in operation mainly in the 1st century.
Emona was never a Pannonian city; it first belonged to Cisalpine Gaul and since 41 BC to Italy. The bound - ary stone from Bevke, which is most probably dated to the period of Augustus or perhaps ...Tiberius, ultimately confirmed that Emona was already an Italian city in the first half of the first century AD, but it must also have belonged to Italy earlier. There is no decisive evidence to establish the precise time when the town became a Roman colony. The proposed dates range from the time of Octavian after the battle at Actium to the beginning of Tiberius’ reign. While all the arguments supporting the latter hypothesis have proven to be invalid, a terminus ad quem must be sought most probably in the last years of Octavian’s rule, which would also be indicated by the colony’s name Iulia.
Abstract Nel periodo tra la tarda età repubblicana e il principato di Augusto l’area nella quale si esercitava l’influenza politica ed economica di Roma si estese notevolmente su vasti territori ...sia a nord quanto a sud delle Alpi orientali. Già in età repubblicana in seguito alle campagne militari di Cesare, commercianti nord italici si erano mossi verso oriente trasferendosi nell’insediamento transalpino di Nauportus al fine di utilizzare le opportunità offerte dai fiumi Ljubljanca, Sava e Danubio. Nel corso del I secolo d.C., la città di Emona, anche essa parte della X Regio, rimpiazzò Nauportus come punto di entrata in Italia delle linee di comunicazione con le province orientali. Questo contributo cerca di chiarire le connessioni delle gentes aquileiesi con gli insediamenti transalpini di Nauportus ed Emona cercando di stabilire se i cambiamenti nella gerarchia di importanza degli insediamenti influenzarono l’attività e l’importanza delle famiglie coinvolte. From the last decades of the republican period and the beginning of the Augustean rule Rome’s political control had extended over large territories both north and south of the Oriental Alps. During the period of the late Republic already, following Caesar’s military campaigns, north-italic settlers and traders moved eastwards in the transalpine settlement of Nauportus, on the eastern side of the Alps, in order to exploit the trade possibilities provided by the rivers Ljubljanica, Sava and Danube. In the 1st century AD, Emona, a town also belonging to the X Regio of Italy, became the prominent centre in the connections with the Eastern provinces taking quickly the place of Nauportus as the terminal of the oriental trade routes before the Alps. This short contribution aims to shed light on the family connections and on the presence of different Aquileian (and other north Italian) families east of the Alps, in particular in the centers of Nauportus and Emona, trying to establish whether the increase of importance of the latter affected the economic activity and the importance of the Aquileian families involved.
