Professional paper
Investigation, Interventions, and the Protection of Pula’s Amphitheatre under the Second Austrian Administration (1815 to 1918)
Đeni Gobić-Bravar
orcid.org/0000-0002-2738-4791
; Archaeological Museum of Istria, Pula, Croatia
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* Corresponding author.
Abstract
Pula’s amphitheatre is almost two thousand years old, but there
remain significant gaps in our understanding of the works that
have been performed in and around it. Data on investigations
and works are critical, not only with regard to the history, but
also from the aspect of conservation and restoration. The degree
of preservation and degradation evident today are, namely, very
often associated with past interventions. The investigations
and interventions performed at the amphitheatre in the course
of the 19th and early 20th c., during the second Austrian
administration of Pula, are presented in part in the literature,
but not all the facts are known. Research at the state archives
in Trieste and Pazin, and of the archival documentation kept at
the Archaeological Museum of Istria in Pula, and of a number
of publications that, from varying perspectives, touch upon this
topic, has allowed us to compile data that provide a quite detailed
account of the investigation, conservation, reconstruction, and
protection efforts of the period. Finally, the obtained data were
compared with the current state of preservation.
Keywords
Pula amphitheatre; second Austrian administration; investigation; conservation; protection
Hrčak ID:
324972
URI
Publication date:
17.12.2024.
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