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Instrumenta inscripta Tiluriensia
Domagoj Tončinić
; Archaeology Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb
Mirna Cvetko
; Archaeology Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb
Abstract
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Domagoj Tončinić
Mirna Cvetko
Croatia, 10000 Zagreb
Archaeology Department
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb
Ivana Lučića 3
dtoncinic@ffzg.unizg.hr
mvukov@ffzg.hr
UDC: 902/908(497.583Tilurij)“-0100/+0300”:069Muzej
Triljskog kraj, Muzej Cetinske krajine,
Arheološki muzej u Splitu,
902/908(497.583Tilurj)“-0100/+0300”]:2-
523.6(497.583Sinj)
Advance notice
Received: 17. 12. 2020.
Accepted: 15. 2. 2021.
Movable archaeological finds bearing inscriptions from the
area of the Roman legionary fortress at Tilurium (today the
village of Gardun near Trilj) are presented in this paper. The scholarly
analysis encompassed the so-called instrumenta inscripta,
i.e., the ceramic, glass, bone and metallic finds which have
an inscription and/or stamp on them. These are finds yielded
by systematic archaeological excavations, as well as finds
today stored in the Trilj Regional Museum in Trilj, the Cetina
Territorial Museum in Sinj, the Franciscan Monastery Archaeological
Collection in Sinj, the Archaeological Museum in Split
or finds recorded in the older scholarly literature. Most of the
finds date to the period from the first half of the 1st century
AD, while individual finds can be dated to the very end of the
1st century BC. Their dating thereby largely overlaps with the
dating of Tilurium as a Roman legionary fortress and then a
fort used by auxiliary contingents. A small number of finds can
be dated to the period prior to the time when Tilurium became
the fortress of Legio VII at the beginning of the 1st century
AD. By the same token, a small number of finds testifies to
the continuity of life in Tilurium once it ceased being a Roman
military base after the mid-3rd century.
Keywords
Roman province of Dalmatia, Tilurium, instrumenta inscripta, Roman army
Hrčak ID:
271185
URI
Publication date:
22.12.2021.
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