Programme - Ancient History and Epigraphy

ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS OF SLOVENIA

Based on the collected epigraphic material from Slovenia (and partly from ex- Yugoslavia) by Jaroslav Šašel who also created the epigraphical photo archives, the project is one of the oldest at the Institute of Archaeology.

The aim of the project is to publish all Roman inscriptions from the four Roman autonomous towns of the present-day Slovenian territory, including their administrative territories: Emona (present-day Ljubljana, Italy, Regio X), Celeia (Celje, Noricum), Poetovio (Ptuj), and Neviodunum (Drnovo pri Krškem, Pannonia). To date two books were published: the lapidarium of the National Museum of Slovenia (containing half of the inscriptions from Emona), as well as Neviodunum (Šašel Kos 1997; M. Lovenjak, Inscriptiones Latinae Sloveniae 1: Neviodunum [Situla 37], Ljubljana 1998).

Four more volumes are planned: one including the inscriptions from Celeia (Julijana Visoènik), one comprising the Emona inscriptions (Šašel Kos), two volumes including the inscriptions from Poetovio (Milan Lovenjak).

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The northeastern area of Regio X and the provinces of Noricum and Pannonia. (117)/p>

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Ocra Pass below Mt. Nanos, according to Strabo "the lowest part of the Alps" (in the background on the right), connecting the Apennine and Balkan Peninsulas (courtesy of Darja Grosman). The boundary stone from Bevke (from Šašel Kos, Boundary stone, 2002).

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The earliest Roman inscription from Emona: the tombstone of T. Caesernius Diphilus, the freedman of Assupa, who was sevir in Aquileia.

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Some "Roman" inscriptions could be counterfeit, such as the tombstone for one "Natesia", immured in the seminary building next to the cathedral. Ioannes Thalnitscher (1655-1719), one of the founders of the Academia operosorum, ordered thirteen Roman inscribed monuments to be immured in the outer walls of both buildings and thus created the first lapidarium in Ljubljana.

Concacts:
dr. Marjeta Šašel Kos in
Julijana Visočnik ter
dr. Milan Lovenjak (Odd. za arheologijo, Fil. fak.)

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