Among the many finds discovered in the harbour of Sisak during the dredging
undertaken in the early 20th century, several pronged spears, evidently fisherman
implements, were also found. One of those ...finds, however, shows some
notable differences. The lack of barbs on the prongs and its general appearance,
strongly reminiscent of tridents’ depictions used by retiarii, could imply that
this artefact was never meant to be used to catch fishes. It would rather appear
that it was a gladiatorial weapon according to analogies depicted on Roman
mosaics, reliefs, graffiti, pottery and glass vessels.
The City Museum Sisak has obtained a hoard of imitations of the drachms of Apollonia and Dyrrhachium allegedly found in the nearby Odra Sisačka in the early 1980s. The coins are most likely ...subaerati, poorly executed with no legends on the reverses (save for the abbreviated city name DYP) and two legends on the obverses (one nonsensical). Curiously, their die axes are aligned and oriented to 12h, and they were produced by four different die
combinations. The distribution of both the original coins of Apollonia and Dyrrhachium and their imitations suggests that this hoard was almost certainly produced, and most likely also deposited, in the areas further to the east. The hoard is only the second example of a collective find consisting exclusively of imitations of the drachms of Apollonia and Dyrrhachium (alongside the Romanian Troianul hoard), and the metrological analysis and comparative study alongside other similar hoards from Romania and Hungary has provided the means of dating the hoard in the early second half of the 1st c. BC.
A lead tablet found in the Kupa River at Siscia (Pannonia, present-day Sisak) is a unique judicial curse tablet, in which the river god Savus was invoked to harm the adversaries of the authors of the ...text. The inner side bears the names of their opponents involved in a lawsuit. Three adversaries are listed first: G. Domitius Secundus, Lucius Larcius, and Valerius Secundus, probably all from Cibalae (Pannonia, present-day Vinkovci). Other names include P. Caetronius and G. Corellius from Narbo (Narbonne) in Gallia and L. Licinius Sura from Hispania, as well as Lucilius Valens, who was very likely from Siscia, where the Lucilii are well documented. It is argued in the article that L. Licinius Sura should not be identified with the Roman senator from Tarraco and Trajan’s adviser and friend, but should rather be regarded as a homonymous person of a lower social standing, whose parents gave him the name Sura, considering it to be a good omen.
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Kult Jupitera Heliopolskog jedan je od sedam „orijentalnih“ kultova koji su zasad potvrđeni epigrafskim i predmetnim izvorima u antičkoj Sisciji. Na žrtveniku konzularnog beneficijara Lucija Virilija ...Pupa nalazi se natpis posvećen Jupiteru Heliopolskom, na kojem piše da se ne smiju žrtvovati svinje. U radu ćemo nastojati ustanoviti je li zabrana svinjetine u kultu Jupitera Heliopolskog bila uvriježena kultna praksa, nastala prema sirijskim običajima. U svjetlu podataka s ovog spomenika nastojat ćemo odgovoriti na pitanje u kojoj mjeri kult možemo smatrati rimskim ili „orijentalnim“.
Our contribution considers some data from the Peutinger map and the Antonine itinerary, regarding the mentioning of the Roman road and the stations along this road between the settlements Siscia and ...Sirmium, along the River Sava. To obtain new results regarding the dating of these two important ancient cartographic sources, I have compared the values of the distances between the settlements recorded in both these itineraries. I have also launched a discussion concerning the mentioning in the Antonine itinerary of the toponym Incero sed mansio augusti in pretorio est, comparable with Ad Praetorium/ Praetorium, recorded in the Peutinger map. In conclusion, I suggested that there are solid arguments in favour of rating the road along the River Sava as one of the earliest routes in Pannonia. Initially, it was a military communication artery, and, as in the whole of the Roman Empire, it became one of the important routes connecting Italy to the Balkans. It was clearly used intensively, and in the late period stations along this road served to supply the infrastructure necessary for the official transportation system. This late state of affairs is reflected in the Antonine itinerary.
Epigraphy has usually been the main source of information for any insight into the social and private life of Roman cities, their dwellers’ backgrounds, beliefs, professional lives or, as a matter of ...fact, their way of life in general. This chapter presents a case study of Siscia showing how new finds may shed a completely new light on assumptions based on the available epigraphic record. It discusses early studies of the population of Siscia. Both Andras Mocsy and Laszlo Barkoczi came to the joint conclusion that Siscia's population was mostly composed of settlers from other, more or less distant areas of the Empire, and their descendants. Tags from Siscia are obviously a great source for studying Roman textile industry but since they also bear names of hundreds of clients, they provide an insight into the population of the town as well.
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