Original scientific paper
Proconsul Tamphilus Vaala’s well in Zadar’s Forum
Pavuša Vežić
Abstract
The paper discusses the well in the Roman Forum in Zadar. Its well-head with an inscription containing the name and title of Proconsul Tamphilus Vaala, the Roman governor of Illyricum, is a well-known and well-studied stone monument of the Roman Iader. In brief outline, the author analyzes the general architectural complex and considers the possibility that it may have contained two wells, while describing what happened to the one that has been archaeologically examined. In the past, the latter well was encompassed by the boundary wall of the Episcopal Complex built on the site of the Roman Forum in the Late Antiquity. In that new complex it was still used for fresh water supply, but in the Middle Ages its shaft was turned into a refuse pit. When a new boundary wall was built on its site, next to the palace garden on the western side of the complex, the well/pit fell into obscurity.
Keywords
Proconsul; Forum; well; well-head; garden; palace
Hrčak ID:
176728
URI
Publication date:
21.12.2016.
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