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Archaeological research of a Roman villa in Soline Bay on the Island of St. Clement (Pakleni Islands, Hvar) in June 2015
Marina Ugarković
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivančica Schrunk
orcid.org/0000-0001-7145-9722
; St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Vlasta Begović
orcid.org/0000-0001-7145-9722
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Marinko Petrić
; The Hvar Heritage Museum, Hvar, Croatia
Abstract
In the ninth season of collaborative investigations, we continued excavating in the production area and connected some previously excavated trenches. Two probes were excavated. Probe S15 connected Probes 2, 11 and 14. It consisted of 24 stratigraphic units and contained segments of three intersecting walls (N-S/E-W), all 0.60 m wide and constructed of the same, roughly cut stones set in lime mortar. In Probe S16, the extension of S11 from 2013, we completely documented a basin (1.30 x 1.80 m) with a floor in opus signinum, sloping down to a central, round depression, which ended in an imbedded stone bowl (D=32.5 cm) at its bottom. The perimeter walls are built of irregular ashlars in lime mortar and vary in width from 0.50 to 0.60 m. This may have been a cistern or a basin for olive oil sedimentation. A layer of collapsed wall and roof material with evidence of burning in S15, north of the E-W wall, contained numerous fragments of wall plaster, some with polychrome painting in red, yellow and black. One tegula fragment had a partial PANSI[ANA] stamp of the Augustan period. The mixed layers above the collapse in S15 and those in S16 contained large amounts of predominantly white mosaic tesserae. The architectural remains found this season are parts of a connected, late antique production and residential complex.
Keywords
Pakleni otoci; the Island of St. Clement; Soline Bay; Roman villa; Late Roman architecture; the economy of Roman villa; Hellenistic, Roman and Late Roman pottery
Hrčak ID:
167339
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Publication date:
7.10.2016.
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