de Larminat (S.), Rousse (C.)., Terrizi (F. A.). – « Un contexte funéraire atypique de la fin du XIIIe s. dans le complexe artisanal romain de Loron (Croatie) : trésor monétaire et étude archéo-anthropologique ». (original) (raw)

Loron (Tar-Vabriga, Croatia) is a large Roman estate implanted near the sea in the early first century AD on the territory of the colony of Parentium (Poreč). It’s currently the subject of a French-Croatian international program involving the territorial museum of Poreč (Zavičajni Poreštine muzej), the French School of Rome and the research center C. Jullian (Aix-Marseille University - CNRS) with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and the French Foreign Ministry. Since 1994, the excavations led by an international team have unearthed a large workshop complex mainly dedicated to the production of oil amphoras Dressel 6B for export. This workshop was the property of senators and emperors. It was continuously occupied from the first century AD to the fourth century AD, before being gradually dismantled, and then completely abandoned in the late fifth century AD. New research conducted on the Loron promontory corresponding to imperial property, have located another Roman residential area - probably the aristocratic villa- without revealing significant evidences about the post-antique occupancy of this area. This is why the discovery in 2012 of a male individual burial associated with a small monetary treasure of the late thirteenth century is an atypical funerary context. The tomb itself, a no deep simple grave, was specifically installed at the corner of a building associated with the amphora workshop. It constitutes an isolated context to link with sporadic visits to the coast. Yet the value of currencies associated with deceased contrast to the simplicity of the burial: these are 9 silver coins issued by the Aquileia and Trieste money workshops between 1234-1254 and 1260-1282. These coins were probably gathered in a purse discovered near the basin. The poster presents all burial components (location, architecture, skeleton, material) in relation to the known data on the late Middle Ages Poreč territory occupation and the funerary practice, compared to others similar contexts of isolated medieval burials with coins in Italy.