Apart from some exceptional bronze items assemblages which attest irreversibility of the offered objects due to specific site circumstances (e.g. deep abysses), little remains to claim the unequivocal irreversibility of the deposited objects for the vast majority of the Bronze Age hoards. If we are to understand hoards as votive deposits then their supposed irreversibility should be taken for granted. Can we therefore gain some indirect confirmation of their irreversibility? Some characteristics of the Late Bronze Age hoards from the southeastern Alpine region attest their irreversibility indirectly (e.g. structured composition, presence of extraordinary landmarks in the nearest proximity to the hoard). The case of a newly acquired hoard from Bled in the Slovene Alpine area is presented with regard to its site circumstances and extraordinary presence of two golden appliqués. Different conclusions regarding ireversibility of finds can be deduced from another settlement hoard from Dragomelj in central Slovenia. The correlation between the stratigraphic position of objects in the hoard and the degree of their fragmentation lead one to conclude that the objects were taken out of the hoard and were redeposited in the hoard again. The irreversibility of the deposited objects is therefore far from certain. Does this mean that such transactions were therefore of pure profane nature? Not necessarily. A distant but instructive historic analogy concerning treasures from the Athena Parthenon temple in classical period Athens attests to reversible transactions of donated gifts in times of trouble.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 8421472A virtual reconstruction of the fortress at Ad pirum (present-day Hrušica) in the second half of the 4th century was made. It is based on a detailed analysis of the results of archaeological research on the fortress walls and its interior as well as on the study of parallels, mainly from North Africa, but also from provinces Noricum and Raetia. It is intended for interested general public who visit the ruins but find it difficult to imagine what was the appearance of the fort during its activities. Reconstruction is available online (http://www.nms.si/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=773%3Aparsjad-digi&catid=63%3Aprojekt-parsjad&Itemid=310&lang=sl). Its interactive version shall be available for the visitors of the new archaeological exhibition at Hrušica, which is being prepared.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 8430432The dissertation provides significant insight in the dynamics of settlement patterns during the transition from prehistory to the Roman period. It suggests that the indigenous fortified settlements fall in two groups. The first group consists of hillforts from the region between the southern fringes of the Postojna basin and the Loška dolina; they were all abandoned till the middle of the 1st century AD. Settlements from the ridge between the Rivers Pivka and Reka, from Košanska dolina (Košana valley) and from the area of Ilirska Bistrica belong to the second group of settlements, for which small finds indicate the continuation of settlement after 1st century AD. Presumably this difference is associated with different policies of the indigenous communities to the Romans. Distribution of small finds associated with the Celtic tribe of the Taurisci and distribution of the items related to Roman soldiers from the period between Julius Caesar and Augustus namely geographically coincide with the first group of settlements, suggesting that their decline was in a causal relationship with the presumably significant influence of the Taurisci, who were hostile to the Romans, as well as with Roman military interventions as a consequence. For the inhabitants of the second group of the settlements it can be assumed that they were loyal to the Roman state.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 262818560A review of our measurements on the Roman glass from Albania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Slovenia was given on a international conference in USA. Results indicate several primary glass sources for the period between the 1st to the 5th c. AD. We also confirmed the trend of increasing of the content of MgO with time: for glass earlier than the 4th c. AD the concentrations of MgO are generally below 1%, while for the 5th and 6th century glass they are close to 1.5%. For the glass from Serbia and Bulgaria later than the 5th c. AD we also observed increased values of aluminum oxide (above 3 %).
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 26433319We prepared an exhibition on Roman lead sling shots from several archaeological sites in Slovenia. These interesting archaeological finds are associated with Roman soldiers and they clearly indicate the advance of Roman military forces during the occupation phase of the territory of te present-day Slovenia. The exhibition included display of replicas and a film in which our experiments of casting lead slingshots and firing with sling were presented. The exhibition was on display in the National museum of Slovenia – Prešernova from 15 . 11. 2012 to 15. 2. 2013.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
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