Roman Provincial Archaeology in the Balkans

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: To compare the evidence given by classical historians, historical data and the archaeological record (movable objects, necropoli, temples…), students will gain an insight into the complex demographic structure of the provinces situated in present day Serbia.

Course description: Autochthonous inhabitants (Daco-Misians, Celts, Thracians) differentiated by the form of their graves, tombstones, anthroponomy, cults, type of clothing and jewelry. Emigrants from Syria (anthroponomy, burial practice, led sarcophagi, cult, military units, direct settlers from Palmira – Tribiscum after the loss of Dacia, art from Palmira in Serbia, tombs); immigrants from provinces in Asia Minor (Bithynia, Phrygia, Cilicia) presence of people of oriental origin on stone sarcophagi within the Sirmium region; testimony of Egyptian emigrants, migrations from western part of the empire, movement of Sarmatian enclaves before and during Constantine the Great; emigrants from the lower Danube region (problems associated with the discovery of the Cernjahov - Sintana di Mureš culture); evidence of emigrants from the Strimon valley on tombstones and monuments dedicated to the Bendida cult.

Learning Outcomes: Essay and oral examination.

Literature/Reading:

• M. Mirković, Sirmium, Sirmium I, Beograd 1971, 5-94.
• P.Petrović, M. Mirković, Viminacium et Margum, IMS Vol. II, Beograd 1995.
• A.Jovanović, Rimske nekropole na teritoriji Jugoslavije, Beograd 1984.
• M. Mirković, S. Dušanić, Singidunum et le nord-ouest de la province M.S., IMS Vol. I, Beograd 1978.
• M. Mirković, Rimski gradovi na Dunavu u Gornjoj Meziji, Beograd 1968.
• S. Dušanić, Rimska vojska u istočnom Sremu, Zbornik Filozofskog fakulteta IX/1, Beograd 1968, 87-108.
• E. Čerškov, Municipium DD, Priština-Beograd 1970.
• A. Mocsy, Pannonia and Upper Moesia, London 1974.
• R.Zotović, Nadgrobni spomenici iz istočnog dela provincije Dalmacije, Užice 1995.
• F.Papazoglu, Srednjobalkanska plemena u predrimsko doba, Sarajevo 1969.
• P.Petrović, Niš u antičko doba, Niš 1999.
• ed. Dragoslav Srejović, Rimski carski gradovi i palate u Srbiji, Beograd 1993.
• O.Brukner, V. Dautova-Ruševljan, P.Milošević, Počeci romanizacije u jugoistočnom delu provincije Panonije, Novi Sad 1978.
• D. Spasić-Đurić, Viminacijum, glavni grad rimske provincije Gornje Mezije, Požarevac 2002.
• P.Petrović, Timacum Minus et la vallee du Timok, IMS Vol. III/2, Beograd 1995.
• Lj. Bjelajac, Amfore gornjemezijskog podunavlja, Beograd 1996.