Asseria, Vol. 1 No. 1, 2003.
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FRAGMENT OF A LATE ROMAN MILESTONE FROM ASSERIA
Anamarija Kurilić
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Sažetak
A number of epigraphic monuments were discovered during systematic archaeological excavations of the Liburno-Roman town of Asseria (Podgraðe near Benkovac) in 1998-2002; some of them have already been published (n. 1), while the others are presented in this very volume.
Small fragment of a milestone (Fig. 1.) was found in 2002 in a filling between two city-walls, not far from the western city gate. Thus, it is highly probable that his original post was by the western city gate where it stood as the last milestone on the route that led from Iader to Asseria.
The milestone is made of white limestone. Its rear side is damaged, and both the upper and the bottom part are broken. The fragment is 32 cm in diameter (110 cm in circumference) and its maximum preserved height is merely 39 cm. The milestone surface lightly bends convexly upwards above the first text line, which indicates that it had a top shaped as a short cylinder wider than the body (n. 4).
The inscription is carved directly at the milestone surface, in a square space made even by a mason’s tool, which formed the inscription field wide approximately 40 cm (its preserved height is about 30 cm). Only three lines of text are preserved. The lettering is of good quality; letters are carved in irregular scriptura capitalis typical for the Late Roman period monuments. Heights of letters vary (5.5-7 cm in the 1st line, 5.5 cm in the 2nd line). [...]
Ključne riječi
LATE ROMAN; MILESTONE; ASSERIA
Hrčak ID:
9021
URI
Datum izdavanja:
26.2.2003.
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