Professional paper
SALTUS TARIOTARUM
Alen Miletić
; Trogir Museum, Trogir, Croatia
Abstract
Two boundary inscriptions were found in the territory
of the Marina Municipality which refer to the
boundaries of pastures used by the Delmati Tariotes,
a tribe on the north-western side of the Hyllus Peninsula,
which in literary sources is mentioned only by
Pliny the Elder: dein Tariotarum antiqua regio (HN III,
141). Although life in most hillforts all along the coast
began to subside after the Romans arrived, the Tariotes
remained in individual hillforts until the early
imperial period, retaining their conservative pastoral
lifestyle. Th e hillfort’s morphology testifi es to the continuity
of its use, for Roman ceramics accompany the
construction technique using megaliths.
Keywords
Antiquity; Romanization; Dalmatia; saltus Tariotarum; hillforts
Hrčak ID:
37059
URI
Publication date:
20.5.2009.
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