Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.52064/vamz.54.1.8
Octavian’s footprints: hillforts, camps and roads between Burnum and Sinotium
Silvia Bekavac
Željko Miletić
Abstract
On the basis of a recent field survey of Petrovo polje, in comparison
to the data of Appian and Dio Cassius, the Octavian war campaign
against the Dalamatae in the area between Burnum and
Sinotion (Synodium, Synodion, Sinotium) is reconsidered. We
recognize two temporary Roman military camps. The first, near
the village of Parčić, is part of the Octavian contravallation in
the northwest corner of Petrovo polje, the siege system by which
Dalmatian Promona was surrounded. We conclude that the central
oppidum of that polis integrated three areas on and around
the Orišnica hill. On the neighbouring hill, Petrovac, we locate
the citadel (acropolis) of Promona. The second camp, above the
villages of Otavice and Gradac, located on the southern slope of
the Svilaja mountain, we link with the blockade of the Setovia
hillforts on the edges of the eastern half of Petrovo polje. The
chronological stratification of the Roman road network between
Burnum and Salona is considered.
Keywords
Octavian, Promona, contravallation, siege camps, Setovia
Hrčak ID:
266405
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Publication date:
6.12.2021.
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