Original scientific paper

The Results of Archaeological Investigation at Rijeka’s Ivana Koblera Square: Traces of Antique Tarsatica

Josip Višnjić ; Croatian Conservation Institute Department of Land Archaeology, Juršići Svetvinčenat, Croatia
Siniša Pamić ; Croatian Conservation Institute Department of Land Archaeology, Juršići Svetvinčenat, Croatia
Luka Bekić ; International Centre for Underwater Archaeology Zadar, Croatia

Abstract

The investigative work performed at the Ivana Koblera square in
the course of April and May of 2014 reaffirms the archaeological
significance of the ancient core of Rijeka and has elucidated some
of the open questions related to the establishment and urban
development of antique Tarsatica. The erection of the antique
buildings, the remains of which were uncovered in the course
of the investigative work, has been dated on the basis of the
recovered artefacts to the first century CE. This is the period of
the oldest known urban development of the ancient core of Rijeka,
the period in which Tarsatica was formed as a municipium. The
artefacts that can be dated to the late antique period confirm the
continuity of the utilisation of these structures over the span of
several centuries.

Keywords

Rijeka; Tarsatica; Ivana Koblera square; antique architecture; artefacts

Hrčak ID:

249592

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/249592

Publication date:

21.12.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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