Histria antiqua, Vol. 20 No. 20, 2011.
Prethodno priopćenje
Vižula near Medulin. Maritime residential villa: investigation campaign 2010
Vesna Girardi Jurkić
; Sveučilište u Zagrebu Hrvatski studiji, Odsjek za latinitet Borongajska 83 d HR - 10000 Zagreb
Kristina Džin
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar Centar za arheološka istraživanja – Međunarodni istraživački centar za arheologiju, Brijuni – Medulin, HR - 52103 Pula, p.p. 554
Aleksandra Paić
; Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile HR -52100 Pula
Zrinka Ettinger Starčić
orcid.org/0000-0003-4106-9920
; Lošinjski muzej V. Gortana 35 HR – 51550 Mali Lošinj
Sažetak
In 2010, investigations relating to the late antique and Byzantine phases of the maritime residential villa located in the western area of the peninsula of Vižula near Medulin confirmed the architectural and archaeological continuity of life in the area. Excavations continued on the fourth terrace of the site. It was on this terrace that previous investigations revealed traces of life, destruction and transformation leading into the 6th century AD. Excavations performed in the north-eastern area of the complex did not reveal a continuity of rooms and mosaic floors from the 6th and 7th centuries AD, but rather an interruption of the architectural unit and a network of successive constructions and mortar floors in at least three layers: structures of partition walls and walls located at the level of mosaics and constructions of quadrilateral rooms. A quadrilateral room was discovered on the eastern part of villa. The walls of the room were built exclusively of tegulae on which a stamp reading Quintus Clodius Ambrosius was observed. The room belongs to a newly discovered building phase and is located in an area that had been divided in half by partitions and which continues towards the north east, suggesting the further expansion of the building complex paved with fairly large ceramic cubes (3.0 cm x 3.0 cm) executed in opus reticulatum. The investigation of the area to the north of the room with a mosaic and fireplace also did not reveal any traces of mosaics or any continuity of the wastewater system belonging to older structures from the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. Ceramic mosaic tiles, late antique black kitchen vessels with inverted rims and fragments (3 century AD) of blue glass bottles (3-4 century AD) all point to a standard late antique inventory. Late antique and Byzantine coins of different sizes are particularly interesting from As, the coin of Honorius. The results of investigations conducted in 2010 suggest that the Roman complex of the maritime residential villa was architecturally transformed into a late antique settlement of a “condensed” type in which life continued after the 6th century AD into the Early Middle Ages with a series of social, economic and ethnic changes. The import of kitchen vessel from Rome, glass botle from Germany, coins from Asia Minor and marble from Greece shows the contact with all the Roman world.
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Datum izdavanja:
1.10.2011.
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