Preliminary communication
Preliminary analysis of activity results for the research and educational project Discovering the Old Dubrovnik Cathedrals (2018–2020)
Maja Zeman
; Department of Art history, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivana Ožanić Roguljić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0140-8011
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Marina Šiša Vivek
; Gruda, Croatia
Suzana Damiani
orcid.org/0000-0001-6074-355X
; Department of Conservation and Restauration of the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Ana Marinković
orcid.org/0000-0002-9841-3190
; Department of Art history, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The research and educational project Discovering the Old Dubrovnik Cathedrals was launched in 2015. Its activities were primarily focused on the expert and scientific study of movable monuments and archaeological finds originating from the site under the Baroque Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and in the nearby square of Bunićeva Poljana in Dubrovnik. All the materials were the results of the archaeological excavations of the site undertaken after the earthquake of 1979; in the long subsequent period of twenty-seven years, they had been largely unstudied and unpublished. In the first phase of the project (2015–2017), primarily because of the quantity of materials and the poor condition in which they were found, the activities focused on their rescue and sorting before engaging in any expert studies. The primary activity was the study of stone monuments and fragments of glass, while other materials (fragments of wall paintings and metal) were unified and documented, or just catalogued and properly stored (pottery fragments). In the second phase of the project (2018–2020), pottery and ceramics and fragments of wall paintings were studied in more detail. The preliminary analysis resulted in valuable new insights: on one hand, it provided a whole new chronology of habitation for the part of the historic center of Dubrovnik that developed along today’s port; on the other, it painted a more comprehensive picture of the furnishing and building phases of „the old Dubrovnik cathedrals“, the elaborate complex explored under the Baroque cathedral and in the square of Bunićeva Poljana. Along with the results of studying pottery and fragments of wall paintings, there are also the preliminary results of of the analysis of stone monuments, with a special emphasis on the earliest layer from late antiquity (early Christianity).
Keywords
Dubrovnik cathedral; archaeological heritage; stone monuments; pottery; amphorae; wall paintings; prehistory; late antiquity – early modern period
Hrčak ID:
248466
URI
Publication date:
22.12.2020.
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