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IVAN KRSTITELJ TKALČIĆ – PIONEER OF ARCHEOLOGY RESEARCH IN SISAK IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Vlatka VUKELIĆ
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Contribution of Ivan Krstitelj Tkalčić to the Croatian archeology is undeniable, but it is not well known that much of his archeological work was connected with the city of Sisak. Namely, Tkalčić, as curate, lived in Sisak in the period between 1862 and 1867, and during this period he became interested not only in the Sisak community but also in the history of this ancient city. His interest was particularly orientated towards antiquity, and since he read ancient author’s works about Sisak, Tkalčić had opportunity to witness
and investigate in site all what he previously had read in the literature. Consequently, he participated in many amateur archeological excavations that revealed numerous artifacts.
Moreover, Tkalčić himself initiated several of them. Those excavations and determination of the excavations sites mostly were planned on the basis of local oral tradition, and by no means one cannot expect that they were systematically organized. Still, Tkalčić tried to classify and systematically organize revealed artifacts. By the same token, on the basis of his huge humanistic knowledge Tkalčić also tried to organize conservation of the archeological
sites and later presentation, though he was not graduated archeologist. Since during the years a great part of the revealed epigraphic artifacts has disappeared, one has to note that thanks to Tkalčić we still know much about this valuable heritage. Analyzed
correspondence of Tkalčić witness that he constantly discussed archeological matters with Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, Matija Sabljar and Šime Ljubić. All of them tried, on the basis of the archeological artifacts, to reconstruct history of Sisak (Siscia) in antiquity, and
Tkalčić’s study Severilla ili slika iz progonstva krćanah u Sisku clearly witness about his contribution in this field.
Ključne riječi
Sisak; Siscia; archeology; second half of the nineteenth century; Ivan Krstitelj Tkalčić
Hrčak ID:
116107
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Datum izdavanja:
19.12.2013.
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