Short communication, Note
Archaeological research of a Roman villa in Soline Bay on the island of St. Clement (Pakleni Islands, Hvar) in June 2018
Marina Ugarković
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivančica Schrunk
; St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Vlasta Begović
; Zagreb, Croatia
Marinko Petrić
; The Hvar Heritage Museum, Hvar, Croatia
Eduard Visković
orcid.org/0000-0002-8030-0227
; Kantharos Ltd, Hvar, Croatia
Abstract
The research on the site of a Roman maritime villa in Soline Cove on St. Clement Island (Pakleni Islands, Hvarski Škoji), uninterrupted since 2007, was continued in June 2017. The purpose of this years’ work was to continue the excavations in the productive area (pars rustica) of the villa, but also to associate and document the multi-phase premises and architecture that had already been partly excavated. The new trench 20 was laid in the north-eastern extension of trench 19 from 2017, which had contained well-preserved basins covered with fine waterproof plaster. In trench 20, one of those basins was documented in its entirety, while another shallow basin of the same kind was found next to it. There was the significant find of 10 late Roman coins, with particularly well-preserved coins of Emperor Julian (361–363). The results of the works in the productive area of the villa from 2014 to 2018 showed production structures sharing the same space and function, which consist of basins covered with fine waterproof plaster, a round masonry structure that was probably the base of a press, and a floor lay with the opus signinum technique. The round base was built on earlier walls; the basins are earlier too, and they may have had a different purpose in the earlier phase. This year’s excavations complement our knowledge on the arrangement and chronology of the architecture and on the activities in the outhouse area in late antiquity.
Keywords
Pakleni Islands; the island of St. Clement; Soline Bay; Roman villa; Late Roman architecture; the economy of Roman villa; Early and Late Roman pottery
Hrčak ID:
231639
URI
Publication date:
18.12.2019.
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