Original scientific paper
NEW ROMAN-ERA INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE “CELLARS” OF DIOCLETIAN’S PALACE
Dino Demicheli
orcid.org/0000-0002-5911-7903
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Th is work contains an analysis of ten epigraphic monuments
found during research in the so-called cellars of
Diocletian’s Palace after the Second World War. Nine of
these inscriptions have not been published thus far, and
one which was believed lost has been rediscovered. Since
several of them pre-date the construction of the Palace itself,
it is not known if they were brought in from Salona or
if they were originally installed in the Split area. An interesting
aspect of these inscriptions is that the names of the
deceased in them appear only very rarely in Dalmatia or
not at all, and some were found in inscriptions of the Roman
Empire for the fi rst time.
Keywords
Antiquity; “cellar” of Diocletian’s Palace; Salona; onomastics; Vulgar Latin; numeri
Hrčak ID:
37064
URI
Publication date:
20.5.2009.
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