JSAS volumes/ GSAD sveske by jelena A Vasic Derimanovic
by Glasnik Srpskog arheološkog društva, Miroslav Marić, Neda Mirković-Marić, Emilija Nikolić, Ljubisa Vasiljevic, Dušan S Rašković, Radmila Balaban, Vera Bogosavljevic, Srpsko Arheološko Društvo, Martin Husár, Marija Jović, Mirjana Vojvoda, Anđa Petrović, Vladimir Pecikoza, Zorica Kostic, and jelena A Vasic Derimanovic
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Glasnik Srpskog arheološkog društva 32, 2016
In November 2014, while digging a hole for a septic tank on his property in Ritopek, Mr Rajko Obr... more In November 2014, while digging a hole for a septic tank on his property in Ritopek, Mr Rajko Obradović found the remains of an ancient grave. Immediately after, Belgrade City Museum conducted an archaeological investigation of the grave, which had already been exposed before the archaeological team’s arrival.
Discovered at the relative depth of 3.5m, the grave was east-west oriented. It was built of bricks and stones bonded with earth mortar. The inner sides of the grave walls were levelled and rendered with lime mortar, while the external sides were constructed very roughly. A roof construction was not found. The construction, 2.5m in length, narrows in a west-east direction, so that the western end of the grave is 1.4m wide, while the width of the eastern end is 1.1m. Two deceased persons were discovered lying on the floor of the grave. According to the position of the bones, it can be assumed that they were holding hands. Based on the morphological characteristics, it was determined that they were a male (maturus) and a female (senilis I). Regarding the finds, in the soil fill of the grave, only fragments of a bowl were found. The rough construction of a grave, its irregular dimensions and the materials used, suggest that the grave was built very quickly, probably immediately before the burial. Based on analogous examples and the bowl found, the grave can be dated to the IVth century.
During the excavations, residents of Ritopek donated many artefacts made of ceramics, metal and stone to the Museum. Among others, these include a lamp with a relief of a horse head, a bowl decorated using the barbotine technique, a palette, a sickle, a fibula and a few bricks with stamps. The chance finds were dated to the period from the Ist to the IVth century AD.
Considering the fact that no systematic archaeological research has been carried out in Ritopek, and that the Roman castrum of Castra Tricornia, together with a settlement, existed in this territory near Danube, these chance finds and the excavated double grave are precious, as they confirm a continuity of life in this territory during the ancient period.
Keywords: Ritopek, Castra Tricornia, grave, brick with stamp, Castra Flaviana, Cohors I Bessorum
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This work deals with 93 specimens of coins from the Nicaea mint in Bithynia that were discovered ... more This work deals with 93 specimens of coins from the Nicaea mint in Bithynia that were discovered in the territory of the present-day city of Belgrade, which arrived in museum collections by way of acquisitions in the past few years. Of this number, 79 specimens are from the Numismatic Collection of the City of Belgrade Museum and 14 are from the Numismatic Collection of the National Museum in Belgrade.
The fact that the location of the discovery for each specimen is known is of particular value. Fifty-eight (among them, two minted for Iulia Mamea) belong to the
coinage of Alexander Severus, and 35 specimens, to the coinage of Gordianus III.
Nine new variants of reverse images were noted as bearing military signs (Fig. 1), and there was a curiosity in the form of one tiny coin of Alexander Severus, the
reverse of which was partly re-minted using an obverse die (cat. 26).
The second part of the paper gives a presentation of all the so far documented finds of coins from the Nicaea mint in the territory of Belgrade, of which there are 171,
discovered on 18 archaeological sites (Table 2). The majority of hitherto finds in the territory of Belgrade originated from the south-eastern part of the province of
Lower Pannonia (163 pieces), whereas only 8 specimens were found in the territory of the province of Upper Moesia. The largest concentration of finds was recorded on the Ušće archaeological site, in the Roman municipium of Spodent […], where 112 specimens of the coins of Nicaea were unearthed, in other words, 65.5%
of all the specimens in the territory of Belgrade. The archaeological finds indicate that in the first half of the 3rd century, besides coins of the Bithynian mint of Nicaea, a new population from the East began settling in the regions of Upper Moesia and the south-eastern part of Lower Pannonia, bringing with them new cults and
new iconographic forms. Such abrupt changes observed in the archaeological record point to a complex process that unfolded between our soil and the East, and so one should perhaps also seek the immediate reasons for the appearance of large quantities of coins from the Nicaea mint in Bithynia.
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Discovered at the relative depth of 3.5m, the grave was east-west oriented. It was built of bricks and stones bonded with earth mortar. The inner sides of the grave walls were levelled and rendered with lime mortar, while the external sides were constructed very roughly. A roof construction was not found. The construction, 2.5m in length, narrows in a west-east direction, so that the western end of the grave is 1.4m wide, while the width of the eastern end is 1.1m. Two deceased persons were discovered lying on the floor of the grave. According to the position of the bones, it can be assumed that they were holding hands. Based on the morphological characteristics, it was determined that they were a male (maturus) and a female (senilis I). Regarding the finds, in the soil fill of the grave, only fragments of a bowl were found. The rough construction of a grave, its irregular dimensions and the materials used, suggest that the grave was built very quickly, probably immediately before the burial. Based on analogous examples and the bowl found, the grave can be dated to the IVth century.
During the excavations, residents of Ritopek donated many artefacts made of ceramics, metal and stone to the Museum. Among others, these include a lamp with a relief of a horse head, a bowl decorated using the barbotine technique, a palette, a sickle, a fibula and a few bricks with stamps. The chance finds were dated to the period from the Ist to the IVth century AD.
Considering the fact that no systematic archaeological research has been carried out in Ritopek, and that the Roman castrum of Castra Tricornia, together with a settlement, existed in this territory near Danube, these chance finds and the excavated double grave are precious, as they confirm a continuity of life in this territory during the ancient period.
Keywords: Ritopek, Castra Tricornia, grave, brick with stamp, Castra Flaviana, Cohors I Bessorum
Papers - Numismatic by jelena A Vasic Derimanovic
The fact that the location of the discovery for each specimen is known is of particular value. Fifty-eight (among them, two minted for Iulia Mamea) belong to the
coinage of Alexander Severus, and 35 specimens, to the coinage of Gordianus III.
Nine new variants of reverse images were noted as bearing military signs (Fig. 1), and there was a curiosity in the form of one tiny coin of Alexander Severus, the
reverse of which was partly re-minted using an obverse die (cat. 26).
The second part of the paper gives a presentation of all the so far documented finds of coins from the Nicaea mint in the territory of Belgrade, of which there are 171,
discovered on 18 archaeological sites (Table 2). The majority of hitherto finds in the territory of Belgrade originated from the south-eastern part of the province of
Lower Pannonia (163 pieces), whereas only 8 specimens were found in the territory of the province of Upper Moesia. The largest concentration of finds was recorded on the Ušće archaeological site, in the Roman municipium of Spodent […], where 112 specimens of the coins of Nicaea were unearthed, in other words, 65.5%
of all the specimens in the territory of Belgrade. The archaeological finds indicate that in the first half of the 3rd century, besides coins of the Bithynian mint of Nicaea, a new population from the East began settling in the regions of Upper Moesia and the south-eastern part of Lower Pannonia, bringing with them new cults and
new iconographic forms. Such abrupt changes observed in the archaeological record point to a complex process that unfolded between our soil and the East, and so one should perhaps also seek the immediate reasons for the appearance of large quantities of coins from the Nicaea mint in Bithynia.
Discovered at the relative depth of 3.5m, the grave was east-west oriented. It was built of bricks and stones bonded with earth mortar. The inner sides of the grave walls were levelled and rendered with lime mortar, while the external sides were constructed very roughly. A roof construction was not found. The construction, 2.5m in length, narrows in a west-east direction, so that the western end of the grave is 1.4m wide, while the width of the eastern end is 1.1m. Two deceased persons were discovered lying on the floor of the grave. According to the position of the bones, it can be assumed that they were holding hands. Based on the morphological characteristics, it was determined that they were a male (maturus) and a female (senilis I). Regarding the finds, in the soil fill of the grave, only fragments of a bowl were found. The rough construction of a grave, its irregular dimensions and the materials used, suggest that the grave was built very quickly, probably immediately before the burial. Based on analogous examples and the bowl found, the grave can be dated to the IVth century.
During the excavations, residents of Ritopek donated many artefacts made of ceramics, metal and stone to the Museum. Among others, these include a lamp with a relief of a horse head, a bowl decorated using the barbotine technique, a palette, a sickle, a fibula and a few bricks with stamps. The chance finds were dated to the period from the Ist to the IVth century AD.
Considering the fact that no systematic archaeological research has been carried out in Ritopek, and that the Roman castrum of Castra Tricornia, together with a settlement, existed in this territory near Danube, these chance finds and the excavated double grave are precious, as they confirm a continuity of life in this territory during the ancient period.
Keywords: Ritopek, Castra Tricornia, grave, brick with stamp, Castra Flaviana, Cohors I Bessorum
The fact that the location of the discovery for each specimen is known is of particular value. Fifty-eight (among them, two minted for Iulia Mamea) belong to the
coinage of Alexander Severus, and 35 specimens, to the coinage of Gordianus III.
Nine new variants of reverse images were noted as bearing military signs (Fig. 1), and there was a curiosity in the form of one tiny coin of Alexander Severus, the
reverse of which was partly re-minted using an obverse die (cat. 26).
The second part of the paper gives a presentation of all the so far documented finds of coins from the Nicaea mint in the territory of Belgrade, of which there are 171,
discovered on 18 archaeological sites (Table 2). The majority of hitherto finds in the territory of Belgrade originated from the south-eastern part of the province of
Lower Pannonia (163 pieces), whereas only 8 specimens were found in the territory of the province of Upper Moesia. The largest concentration of finds was recorded on the Ušće archaeological site, in the Roman municipium of Spodent […], where 112 specimens of the coins of Nicaea were unearthed, in other words, 65.5%
of all the specimens in the territory of Belgrade. The archaeological finds indicate that in the first half of the 3rd century, besides coins of the Bithynian mint of Nicaea, a new population from the East began settling in the regions of Upper Moesia and the south-eastern part of Lower Pannonia, bringing with them new cults and
new iconographic forms. Such abrupt changes observed in the archaeological record point to a complex process that unfolded between our soil and the East, and so one should perhaps also seek the immediate reasons for the appearance of large quantities of coins from the Nicaea mint in Bithynia.