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https://doi.org/10.21857/yvjrdclz3y
Salona and Tilurium, Two Interconnected Stone Carving Centres
Nenad Cambi
; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti
Sažetak
Salona and Tilurium were two settlements at a distance of some 30 km.
Salona was a city and a Roman colonia, while Tilurium was a fortress of the
Seventh Legion. These two settlements were interconnected economically and
culturally, as the former was the latter’s harbour, supplying it with various commodities
for the army units. As early as the foundation of the fortress, Tilurium
became a stone carving centre, whose workshops produced the so-called Gardun
Trophy and a series of funerary stelae decorated with weapons and military
equipment. There is no doubt that the carvers in Tilurium continued their
work for several decades after finishing the Gardun Trophy. The soldiers of the
Seventh Legion, stationed at Tilurium, were detached to serve in Salona, where
some of them died. Despite being produced in Salona, their funerary monuments
were designed in imitation of “Tilurian” shapes, which is further proved
by the kind of stone used (most probably the limestone from the quarry in Siget,
a village in the vicinity of Trogir, Roman Tragurium, a coastal town northwest
of Salona). Once the Seventh Legion had left Tilurium, the stone carvers moved
to the fortress of the Ninth Legion at Burnum, where they continued to produce
funerary monuments showing “Tilurian” characteristics. Later on, iconographic
traits of Tilurian workshops appeared sporadically in Salona (doors by the
sides of the inscription field on one sarcophagus). When the soldiers had left for
the Danube limes, the inhabitants of the area still sometimes purchased funerary
stones in Salona (the sarcophagus of Claudia Quintina).
Ključne riječi
Salona, Tilurium, stone carving workshops, stelae, sarcophagi
Hrčak ID:
278461
URI
Datum izdavanja:
6.5.2020.
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