Some issues regarding the identification of ancient Romula with the urban ghost Malva (original) (raw)

Malva, la colonie perdue de la Dacie Inférieure

Acta Musei Napocensis, 2017

Cette étude reprend la question épineuse de la localisation et du statut de Malva (colonia Malvensis), qui a donné, après la réorganisation du temps des guerres marcomanniques, le nom d’une subdivision de la Dacie romaine, à savoir la Dacia Malvensis, superposant la Dacie Inférieure. Rejetant l’identification traditionnelle de Malva à Romula, à partir du réexamen du dossier épigraphique concernant Malva (y compris les termes Malvensis et Malvenses), des découvertes archéologiques sur la ligne de l’Olt, et en particulier de l’itinéraire Drobeta–Romula–Apulum sur la Table de Peutinger, on propose une localisation de ce centre sans doute militaire à Stolniceni (dép. de Vâlcea), où était communément placée Buridava.

Colonia Iulia Emona – the genesis of the Roman city

Emona ni bila nikoli mesto v provinci Panoniji; najprej je pripadala cisalpinski Galiji, od leta 41 pr. Kr. pa Italiji. Mejnik iz Bevk, ki najverjetneje sodi v čas vladanja Avgusta ali morda Tiberija, je dokončno potrdil, da je bila Emona italsko mesto že v prvi polovici 1. stoletja po Kr., skoraj nedvomno pa je pripadala Italiji že pred tem. Obstoječi viri in arheološko gradivo ne omogočajo, da bi lahko opredelili natančen čas, ko je postala rimska kolonija. Predlagani časovni termini segajo od časa Oktavijana po bitki pri Akciju do začetka Tiberijevega vladanja. Ker so se dejansko vsi argumenti, s katerimi so dokazovali slednjo hipotezo, izkazali za napačne, je treba po vsej verjetnosti iskati terminus ad quem v času malo preden je Oktavijan postal Avgust, s čimer bi se dobro ujemalo tudi ime kolonije, Iulia.

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Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence About the Religious Life of the Roman Garrison in Tyras , 2023

This article offers a review of the evidence that give insight into the religious ideas and cultic practices of soldiers and officers in the garrison of Tyras. In the southern part of the citadel, two structures were discovered, identified by the researchers as temples. A votive altar dedicated by a military sailor to the god with an epithet Invicto (Mithras or Hercules) and three fragmentary votive slabs with dedicatory inscriptions were also discovered at this area. A fragment of the limestone pediment of a small building with a dedicatory inscription in honor of the emperor was found within the citadel area. In the northern part of the citadel a marble relief depicting Artemis/Diana and a marble statuette of Priapus were discovered. A structure located outside the citadel may be associated with the religious life of the Tyras garrison. It has an apse leaning against it on the east side. This structure might have been a sanctuary, dedicated to some unofficial cults of the Roman army, probably a Mithraeum. Indirectly, this assumption is confirmed by the fragments of reliefs depicting a Thracian horseman and a Mithras Tauroctony found in the adjacent area.

S. Loma & D. Grbić Nikolić, New and revised inscriptions from Dalmatia, ZPE 207, 2018, 278-288

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 207, 2018

This paper provides new epigraphic evidence from the Roman province of Dalmatia, more precisely from its easternmost parts which belong today to Serbia. The present edition is based on our autopsy performed during 2015-2016 within the framework of the digitization project carried out by the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. 1 The region in question was divided between two Roman cities, municipium Malvesiatium and municipium Splonistarum. Modern boundary lines run through the Roman municipal territories, leaving their urban centres outside the borders of Serbia, in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro respectively (Fig. 1 map). The centre of the municipium Malvesiatium was located in the present-day village of Skelani, on the left bank of the Drina as may be deduced from the inscriptions mentioning the ordo decurionum, the basilica and the name of the municipium abbreviated to the fi rst letter. 2 On that side of the river the municipal territory was reduced to a narrow belt fl anked by high mountains, which stretched between Domavia in the north and the mouth of the river Lim in the south, whereas to the east of the Drina it encompassed a vast area spreading between the lower streams of the Lim and the Rzav in today Bosnia and Herzegovina and the upper basin of the West Morava in Serbia. 3 The urban centre of the municipium Splonistarum was located in the village of Komini near Pljevlja in today's northern Montenegro, on a 770 m high plateau where the river Vezičnica pours into the Ćehotina, a right tributary of the Drina. Its territory in the east included the middle basin of the Lim river in western Serbia, with the main settlement situated in Kolovrat, at the confl uence of the Seljašnica stream with the Lim close to the mining area Čadinje near the modern town of Prijepolje. 4 These were two neighbouring municipia, and the delimitation between their vast territories mostly corresponds to the modern state border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina that cuts across Lim River near Priboj so that the region upstream belonged to the municipium Splonistarum and that lying downstream to the municipium Malvesiatium. 5 * We would like to express our gratitude to Prof. Werner Eck who carefully read an earlier version of this paper and gave us valuable suggestions for improving it. 1 The project was fi nancially supported by the

• C. Kallintzi, “The Roman City of Abdera and its territory”, Proceedings of the 1st International Roman and Late Antique Thrace Conference “Cities, Territories and Identities” (Plovdiv, 3rd – 7th October 2016), BULLETIN OF THE NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, XLIV, 2018, 21-30.

In this paper 1 we shall discuss the presence of the city of Abdera in the Roman period, as known by historical sources and archaeological evidence. Many sectors of the Roman city and its cemeteries have been revealed through excavations, but unfortunately , due to the continuous habitation in the same area, the construction phases overlap. However, a satisfactory view of the urban plan and the arrangement of the cemeteries is available, while the ceramic and minor objects provide information about everyday life and the economic activities of the population, as well as their burial customs. Alongside the excavations, surface surveys have been conducted in the territory of Abdera, which have provided data for the settlements, the rural facilities and the villae rusticae around the city, as well as the adverse effects of the construction of Via Egnatia. Nevertheless, despite the existence of architectural remains of the city's buildings and a significant amount of other archaeological artifacts, the Roman period of Abdera has not been studied in depth. Thus, this paper aims to contribute to research towards this direction.

(2014) New Archaeological Insights about Emona between the Decline of the Prehistoric Community and the Construction of the Roman Town (second half of the 1st century BC and early 1st century AD)

Emonca (kopija, detajl) / The Emonan statue (copy, detail), mavec / plaster of Paris, 54 x 150 x 35 cm, MGML, G0000006 Ulična tabla Rimska cesta / Street sign Rimska cesta, kovina / metal, 43 x 70 cm, 1990-2012, MGML, 510:LJU;0055983 9 789616 509381 19 EUR Ob 2000-letnici izgradnje Emone / On the 2000th anniversary of the construction of Emona MESTO V IMPERIJU A CITY OF THE EMPIRE Rossella Franchini Sherifis, Veleposlanica R Italije v Sloveniji / Ambassador of Italy Uroš Grilc, minister za kulturo R Slovenije / Minister of Culture Zoran Janković, župan Mestne občine Ljubljana / Mayor of the Municipality of Ljubljana Blaž Peršin, direktor MGML /