This article deals with the Roman stronghold at Nadleški hrib in Loška dolina. It presents a plan of the site, the results of the geophysical surveys, a viewshed and analyses of energy-optimal pathways, and defines small archaeological finds. The Roman army chose to build the stronghold at Nadleški hrib because of its strategic position. We date the construction from Caesar’s administration of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum to the Augustan Period. The stronghold, therefore, played a role either during the Roman conquest or in the hinterland of the military conflicts in the Balkans during the Augustan Period.
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The article examines a gilded bronze portrait statue of a man in a toga, excavated in 1836 in Ljubljana (Roman Emona), and other parts of the monument, found next to it, i.e. a marble base and a marble Corinthian capital. According to the archives, they were discovered in the north-western corner of the construction pit for the Kazina building, i.e. in the area where the northern Emona necropolis began, directly beside the main Roman road. The stylistic features of the statue and the capital suggest it belonged to the first half of the 2nd century. The iron supports, tenons and lead fillings, which survive on the statue and the capital, clearly suggest that the statue was originally attached to the base, which in turn was attached to the capital atop a column shaft. The latter is mentioned in the excavation report; however, it did not survive. The Roman portrait statues on column monuments from the Principate that we know of to date are exclusively memorials to emperors and are related to their posthumous worship: they marked the site of their cremation, stood as monuments to their apotheosis and could also be grave monuments; in two cases, they also served as memorials of their victories. We assume that the statue from Emona, its base and its capital are parts of a thus-far unique example of a grave column monument with a full-figure statue erected for a person outside the imperial family. There were possibly more such monuments, which either did not survive or survived only in part, so the parts have not been recognized as remains of a column monument.
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A reference book that reviews analytic methods for investigation of archaeological and historical glass includes a chapter on ion beam analysis. The principles of X-ray emission analysis (PIXE), gamma-ray analysis (PIGE) and Rutherford backscattering (RBS) are given. The second part of the chapter reviews published analyses of glass performed by ion beam analytical methods.
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In the glass from Albania dated from the 1st to the 4th c. AD, we observed several groups that imply plural sources of primary raw materials, notably of siliceous sand. This fact implicitly supports the results of other research groups suggesting that during the Imperial period the primary glass was produced in different locations. The alternative model assumes that the primary glass was only produced in the Near East and transported to the secondary workshops throughout the empire.
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The author has collected all the available evidence regarding the small Norican silver coins of the so-called Kugelreiter type. Two groups can be distinguished by the images on the reverse of the coins: on the reverse of the coins of the first group a rider is depicted, while a rosette is depicted on those of the second group. The coins of the first group are characteristic of southeastern Carinthia in Austria, while the coins of the second group concentrate in the region of Friuli, the Soča area and southwestern Carinthia. The minting of these small coins, which correspond to a quarter-drachm, can be dated to the middle of the 2nd century BC.
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