Original scientific paper

Several new Antique monuments from Skradin

Miroslav Glavičić
Željko Miletić

Abstract

In this paper, its authors describe and analyze several new Antique
monuments from the town of Skradin. Particularly significant are
those monuments which document for the first time worship of
the cult of the Magna Mater in ancient Scardona. This includes
the altar bearing a dedication to “Matri Deum Magnae” and a
marble head of the goddess, which were found in the village of
Skorići just above Skradin, where materials excavated during
construction of Skradin’s sewage system were dumped. An altar
bearing a dedication to Jupiter was found at the same site. These
monuments are owned by Ivan Skorić. A fragment of a Liburnian
cippus and a small fragment of a grave inscription are held in the
parish rectory in Skradin. A marble figurine of Liber/Dionysus
found in Piramatovci is currently owned by Mile Bedrica. The
gravestone of the Papinius family from Salona, documented in
Rupotina above Solin in 1886, is currently owned by Tome Pulić.
The authors also describe the parts of the stone quay of
ancient Scardona’s harbour, which they observed along the right
bank of the Krka River downstream from Rokovača Bay, i.e. the
extension of the contemporary ACI Skradin Marina.

Keywords

epigraphic monuments; cult sculpture; Scardona (Skradin)

Hrčak ID:

75373

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/75373

Publication date:

30.11.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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