Original scientific paper
Several unpublished inscriptions from the lapidarium of the Archaeological Museum in Split
Dino Demicheli
; Archaeology Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb
Abstract
This paper deals with nine epigraphic monuments from
the lapidarium of the Archaeological Museum in Split which
most likely came to the Museum in the period from the 1920s
through the 1940s.1 There are specific data on the location and
time of discovery for some of the monuments covered herein,
but for most there is no precise data on location and time in
the inventory logs. The monuments are mainly from the area
of Solin and Kaštela, and they are in large part gravestones.
The inscriptions in their restored form and as photographs
have already been accessible for some time in the digital database
Ubi erat Lupa and, consequently, in the Epigraphic Database
Clauss-Slaby, but they are incorporated here as inscriptions
found in Split. Nonetheless, since they have not been
comprehensively published thus far, they are interpreted in
this paper. There are mostly complete inscriptions which contain
several new names not previously known in the Roman onomastics in Dalmatia. All of the inscriptions can be dated
from the 1st to 3rd centuries. Two monuments in particular may
be highlighted, as from the typological standpoint they have
a lesser presence in Dalmatia, and these are large built-in funerary
plaques. Based on comparisons to several similar monuments,
it appears that the production of such plaques may
be dated from the mid-1st to the beginning of the 2nd century.
It may be assumed that several monuments were in secondary
use, but since there are no data on the discovery context for
most, nothing can be confirmed with any certainty.
Keywords
epigraphy, Salona, Dalmatia, onomastics, gravestones, spolia
Hrčak ID:
271196
URI
Publication date:
22.12.2021.
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