Original scientific paper

Inscriptiones Spalatenses ineditae 1: The stela of Julia Victorina from the Convent of St. Clare in Split

Dino Demicheli orcid.org/0000-0002-5911-7903 ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Abstract

The article deals with the Roman-era artefact found
during adaptation of a section of the former Convent
of St. Clare, specifically the Church of St. Andrew
de fenestris and the palace of the Božićević (Natalis)
family, which is now held in the Ethnographic Museum
in Split. This is the stela of Julia Victorina, to
whom the monument was most likely placed in the
first half of the 3rd century by her spouse, Aurelius
Filo. In terms of appearance, this stela does not stand
out in any way from similar stelae from the first half
of the 3rd century, but the inscription on it has several
linguistic features which may be attributed to Vulgar
Latinity in the Salona environs. The possibility that
the inscription had originally been placed somewhere
on the Split peninsula once more opens the question
of the type of settlements in this territory prior to construction
of Diocletian’s Palace.

Keywords

Split; Salona; Diocletian’s Palace; Antiquity; inscriptions; vulgar Latin; Convent of St. Clare; Church of St. Andrew de fenestris

Hrčak ID:

152635

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/152635

Publication date:

23.12.2015.

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