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The inscription of Constantius on the Roman tropaeum at the Porta Caesarea in Salona

Jasna Jeličić Radonić


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Abstract

A Roman victory monument was erected near the Porta Caesarea
in Salona; it was rectangular and its sides formed beams
adorned with a Doric frieze bearing depictions of military
equipment and a continuous relief to which a fragment of an
anthropomorphically-conceived tropaeum (trophy) may have
belonged. This was most likely a memento of the total pacification
of the province of Dalmatia after the end of the Pannonian-
Delmataean wars, celebrated in the triumph Ex Pannoneis
et Delmateis. The Augustan tropaeum, respected over lengthy
period, was secondarily used for the same purpose, when Consul
Flavius Julius Rufinus Sarmentius marked the victory of
Constantius over the usurper Magnentius in 351 AD. This fact
is corroborated by the preserved parts of beams in Split’s Archaeological
Museum, as well as those noted in Garagnin’s archival
drawings, on which the ornaments were scraped from
the frontal and rear sides when the inscription of Constantius
was being carved.

Keywords

tropaeum, Doric frieze, relief frieze, inscription of Constantius, governor of the province of Dalmatia Flavius Julius Rufinus Sarmentius, Salona.

Hrčak ID:

344335

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/344335

Publication date:

1.12.2025.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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