Prethodno priopćenje
The island of Korčula: Illyrians and Greeks
Dinko Radić
orcid.org/0000-0001-8564-9789
; Centar za kulturu Vela Luka, HR, 20270 Vela Luka
Igor Borzić
orcid.org/0000-0001-7787-3975
; Sveučilište u Zadru, HR, 23000 Zadar
Sažetak
Research into the Greek settlement of the eastern
Adriatic seaboard normally begins with an analysis
of the information on the oldest trade contacts which
largely collided with the unsuccessful or brief episodes
of settlement on Korčula and certain other, still
imprecisely specified locations. At the beginning of
the 4th century BC, Issa and Pharos were established, followed by Issaean colonization aimed at the Hellenisation
of a narrow coastal belt from Trogir to Žrnovnica.
Archaeological data indicate that the situation on
Korčula differed from that which appertained on
Vis or Hvar. During the younger Iron Age, several
powerful indigenous communities existed on the island,
obviously open to Greek influence, but thus far
there are no physical confirmations that a successful
Hellenistic settlement had existed on that island
Research at the Kopila hillfort has shown that between
the end of the 4th and the mid-1st centuries there was
a strong hillfort settlement on the hill above the Blato
plain, and its inhabitants were interred in monumental
tombs, while the rich and diverse goods suggest
that the local culture was under considerable Hellenistic
Greek influence. Its specificity is reflected in the
unique architecture of the necropolis, the funerary rituals
which we have only begun to reconstruct and the
separate burial of children of neonatal age. Research
into the island’s prehistory has only just begun, so it is
to be expected that over the coming decades far more
facts will come to light.
Ključne riječi
Korčula; later Iron Age; prehistoric hillforts; Greek colonization; Kopila hillfort; Stine hillfort; indigenous population; Hellenism; necropolis
Hrčak ID:
193079
URI
Datum izdavanja:
29.12.2017.
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