SVIBOR - Project code: 6-02-255

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Project code: 6-02-255

ROMAN METAL AND POTTERY PRODUCTION AND IMPORT TO NORTHWEST.CROATIA

Main researcher: KOŠČEVIĆ, REMZIJA (22546)

Assistants

MAKJANIĆ, RAJKA (98163)
ŠKOBERNE, ŽELIMIR (178305)
LIPOVAC-VRKLJAN, GORANKA (179602)

Type of research: basic
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 12/23/94.

Papers on project (total): 11

Institution name: Institut za arheologiju, Zagreb (197)

Communication

Summary: Studies of Roman metalwork and pottery were so far based on old accidental finds and sporadic discoveries out of stratigraphic context, and only in smaller extent on systematic excavation. Today there are indications that such finds may be expected at some so far unregistered Roman localities in the Zagreb area, which should be examined on-site. Among priority finds is the big necropolis under mounds in Turopolje, where excavations were temporerly suspended. The project deals with objects which are only marginally treated within the scope of the general elaboration of the site, thus yielding little result. Excepted and analysed with consideration equal to that given the massive monuments of distant past, they represent adequat source of information towards understanding the historical heritage. The subject matter of the project are objects of the Roman metal and pottery mass industry and art and craft prodiction: pieces from civilian and military clothing, various equipment and accessory pieces, ranging from profane to ritual. Realisation of the project would aid re-definiting the views on mundane pieces as objects of secondary valye. It is essential to continue the project in close cooperation with archeological museums in major regional centres. Filling the gaps resulting from inadequate publication of old finds stored in museal depositories is urgent in order to complete the general inventory. The project includes the study of cults, primarily those originating in the Orient, initially on the level of registering their presence in our country.

Keywords: Northwestern Croatia, Roman period, pottery, metal objects, bronze, lead, factory.

Research goals: Although pottery and metalwork object are regularly found in allsites, and the former comprise the most numerous sort ofarchaeologican objects, their studying was carried out onlyintermittently in our part of Pannonia. Therefore, the basic aimis to establish the typological and chronological scale forpottery and metalwork objects, adding their function for thelatter. Further work should include forming the data base formain categories of art and craft pottery and metalwork inmainland Croatia; try to identify production centres and possiblyestablish their origin in a home manufacture; determine therelation of import and export on the basis of existing knowledgeof economy in northwestern Croatia in 1 - 4 century; obtain themost complete understanding possible of the number, situation,and character of burial and accompanying ritual concerningnecropoles in Zagreb area, with the focus on earth mounds, inorder to simplify the question of their origin, ethnicity, andcontinuity; in this wiev, field research on the big necropoliswith tumuli in Turopoljski Lug nier Velika Gorica is essential inorder to shed some light on the enigma of the hypotheticalsettlement there; examine the sites with traces of Romantechnology indicated mining; extract data relevant to preciseconclusions on pre-Roman autochthonous as well as Oriental cultsin Croatia.

COOPERATION - PROJECTS

Name of project: ne postoji
Name of institution: ne postoji
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

Name: Bibliografija

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