Programme - Roman period

SETTLEMENT DEVELOPMENT OF PTUJ IN THE ROMAN PERIOD

The data base of the archaeological sites of Ptuj is being prepared; it consists of published data, archive data and records of field surveys. The sites are geopositioned and include commentaries. The data base is an informational foundation for maps concerning individual archaeological periods and for an urbanistic map of the Roman town Poetovio.

Collaboration is ongoing with the following institutions: the Provincial Museum in Ptuj, the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Regional Office in Maribor, the National museum of Slovenia; and with individuals: dr. Iva Mikl Curk and Zorka Šubic.

Poetovio. Settlement and cemeteries on the left bank of the Drava river in the 1st to 3rd centuries.

Contacts: dr. Jana Horvat and Andreja Dolenc Vičič

ROMAN INDUSTRIAL QUARTER AT RABELČJA VAS IN PTUJ

Analyses of the archaeological excavations of the Regional Museum of Ptuj in the area of the Roman industrial quarter at Rabelčja vas – Poetovio.
Collaboration with Marjana Tomanič Jevremov from the Regional Museum of Ptuj.

Contact: dr. Jana Horvat

ROMANISATION OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN ALPINE REGION

The research is focused on the period between the second half of the 2nd and the 1st centuries BC and concerns the following: the earliest contacts of Romans with the south-eastern Alpine area, successive occupation, control of the communication routes, foundations of the first Roman settlements.
The archaeological material from the Razdrto pass (Okra) is being studied in detail, as well as the vicus Nauportus.

Razdrto, amphora of the Lamboglia 2 type.

Vrhnika 2005, Kočevarjev vrt. Foundations of the storehouses. The second half of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

Vrhnika 2005, Kočevarjev vrt. The barrel in the well. First half of the 1st century AD

Collaboration with Notranjski muzej in Postojna, the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Regional Office in Piran and the ODepartment of Wood Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty in Ljubljana.

Contact: dr. Jana Horvat

ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF THE HIGH MOUNTAINS AREA

The diachronic research of the high mountains area focuses on archaeological survey, chronology and the function of the sites.
Collaboration with the Gorenjski muzej in Kranj.

Map of Roman sites in the high mountains area.

Contact: dr. Jana Horvat

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