Duje Rendić-Miočević

Svaka sličnost sa stvarnošću je sasvim slučajna ." Serija "Red i zakon " Bilo je to možda, pre nekoliko godina …U toj školi samo nas nekoliko je dolazilo iz grada,svi oostali su obrađivali imanja i gajili voće i povrće , krave,koze ,ovce…Trebalo se u teškim vremenima prehraniti i odškolovati decu rasutu po svetu. Tog dana smo radili "Asku i vuka ", deca su pre časa dobili zadatka na šta da obrate pažnju i da razmisle u značaju umetnosti na nas,pojednice. Svi su se spremili osim jednog nastašnog dečaka sa krupnim braonkastim očima. I dok smo mi razgovrali o delu ,on je počeo da nabraja rase ovaca i doneo je flajere sa slikom ovaca. "Merino , sjenička , šarplaninka , Lester,Linkoln…" I tako u nedogled. Vidim ,deci smeta. Tada nisu radile ove službe (PEpsi) , pedagog i psiholog, i odlučih da ga odvedem kod direktora. Direktor me nije ni pogledao ,ni pitao što sam ga dovela. Već je njemu dao sokić ,domaća radinost , i počeo da priča koja od ovih daje njaviše vune, mleka i mesa. Dok su oni pijuckali sok i ćaskali prijateljski .Osetila sam da sam nepotrebna i rekoh : Ovde sam ja ,sigrurno, proglem ! Doviđenja! Kasnije se dećak uselio i jedva sam čekala da završi 8. Čak mu je pobratim postao direktor ,nekad ,kad mu se nije išlo na časove ,sedeo bi i pio sokić ,čista domaća radinost.

Za svog života Juraj Julije Klović portretiran je na medaljama dvaput – ukoliko nije riječ o dvije inačice iste medalje – a samo jedna medalja sačuvana je do danas i to u Odjelu za numizmatiku i medalje Britanskog muzeja u Londonu. Godine 1632. postavljen je u rimskoj crkvi nadgrobni spomenik J. J. Kloviću s mramornim ovalnim medaljonom s portretom velikoga majstora minijature. U drugoj polovini 17. stoljeća neki ne prevješti medaljer napravio je medalju s poprsjem osobe koja profilom ni u kom slučaju ne sliči Kloviću, iako natpis govori suprotno. Tijekom druge polovine 20. stoljeća neki hrvatski medaljeri (I. Belobrajdić, Z. Brkić, A. Kukec, K. Kovačić, D. Mataušić) posvećivali su Kloviću svoje radove, bilo s njegovim portretom, bilo s reminiscencijama na neke od njegovih vrlo brojnih radova.

Institut za arheologiju i Muzej grada Šibenika imaju čast pozvati vas na otvorenje izložbe Vlakom prema jugu 60 godina suradnje Instituta za arheologiju i Muzeja grada Šibenika Veselimo se vašem dolasku! Izložba se organizira uz poštivanje svih važećih epidemioloških mjera.

English translation of Part II (The Coins) of Josef Brunsmid's "Die Inschriften und Münzen der Griechischen Städte Dalmatiens", from Abhandlungen des archäologisch-epigraphischen Seminares, XIII, Vienna 1898.
With additional images, plates, coin entries and new information about the probable date of the reign of King Ballaios.

Giulio Clovio on Medals and on a Medallion
The effigy of Giulio Giorgio Clovio (Grižane, Croatia, 1498 ‒ Rome, January 5, 1578) the most
famous miniaturist of the 16th c. – maximus in minimis – can also be seen on medals. Although
we cannot complain that some of his great contemporaries did not portray him on
canvas, it is unusual that during his lifetime only two medals were made or perhaps just one
in two variants. The remainder were made after his death, some in our times.
The first, a double-sided medal, 40 mm in diameter, was first published in 1750 by Filippo
Argelati, although he had not seen it. Later it was also described by other writers, for instance
by A. Armand. A uniface medal of cast bronze, 32 mm in diameter exists at the Coins
and Medals Department of the British Museum and has been published by various authors,
starting with J. W. Bradley in 1891. In 1632 a representative marble epitaph consisting of an
inscription topped by the miniaturist’s portrait on an oval medallion was unveiled in the
very well frequented Roman Basilica of S. Pietro in Vincoli.
In 1998, in the second volume of the monumental catalogue of Venetian medals by Piero
Voltolina, one could see an apocryphal cast-bronze, uniface medal with a portrait for which
the inscription claimed that it was that of G. G. Clovio, made in the second half of the 17th
c., 48.5 mm in diameter. However, the profile of the man depicted does not resemble that
of Clovio at all. The portrait of G. G: Clovio and some of his works found its place in the Croatian
art of the medal of the 20th c. Zdravko Brkić made a two-sided, cast bronze medal
in 1978, 115 mm in diameter, with the portrait of the master on the obverse and a detail of
a miniature by him from the Farnese Codex on the reverse. In the same year of the fourth
centenary of Clovio’s death, another double-sided, cast bronze medal, rather rough in style,
was made by Ivan Belobrajdić. Damir Mataušić too, the most productive Croatian contemporary
medallist, has also dedicated one of his medals and a plaquette to Covio’s oeuvre:
one of the medals on the ceremonial chain of the Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb
(1979), as well as on a plaquette depicting Clovio’s Adoration of the Shepherds (1999).
The latter was made in several versions and size.
In 1998, when the 500th anniversary of Clovio’s birth was celebrated, Aleksandar Kukec,
the photographer, made a medal with Clovio’s portrait on the obverse and an inscription
on the reverse. To mark the same jubilee, the Croatian National Bank issued a 200 kuna
silver coin, modelled by Kuzma Kovačić, with the miniaturist’s portrait on the obverse and
an initial from a codex of his on the reverse.

The paper presents a specimen of the rare silver coinage of King Ballaios, with a goal of enlarging the numismatic database for the study of this still enigmatic ruler who remains unrecorded by the extant literary sources, yet nonetheless issued large amounts of bronze coins that spread over a considerable area of the eastern Adriatic coast and beyond, and also his silver coins with a royal title.
Članak opisuje primjerak rijetke srebrne kovanice kralja Baleja. Cilj je članku povećati numizmatičke baze podataka za proučavanje tog zagonetnog vladara. Balej se ne spominje u postojećoj numizmatičkoj literaturi, ali kovao je vrlo mnogo brončanog novca koji se proširio velikim dijelom istočne jadranske obale i dalje. Kovao je i srebrni novac na kojem je upisana i titula kralja.
Digital edition of vol. 59/70 (2017) of the periodical Numizmaticke vijesti will soon be available at http://hrcak.srce.hr/numizmatickevijesti  .

On the basis of iconography, the Roman sarcophagi can be classified in 3 categories: 1 – completely standardised; 2 – those that modify and/or combine well-known patterns within the standard repertoire of funerary iconography; 3 – unparalleled.
The territory of northern Croatia, that is, the Croatian part of the Roman province of Pannonia, does not abound in decorated sarcophagi. Nevertheless, some among them can still be designated as singular in terms of iconography. The examples
presented here can be classified as a combination of the above groups 2 and 3. As the illustration of peculiar iconographies, six pieces from northern Croatia have been brought here: four inscribed sarcophagi (of Pontius Lupus, Maximiana Aemilia,
Romania N(a)evia, and Severilla), all from Siscia, as well as two un-epigraphic examples, one each from Cibalae and Veliki Bastaji near Daruvar (the territory of Aquae Balissae).
The impression of Pannonia gained from the literary sources is of a province of lowbrow culture. While basically not unfounded, this picture still needs to be nuanced. Judging from the evidence of the selected 3rd- to 4th-century sarcophagi, the
class of the social elite in southern Pannonia might have been more conspicuous than generally presumed on the basis of written sources.

Archaeological Excavations at the City Bulwark Connecting Point North of the Porta Caesarea in Solin (1970 – 1973).
During the archaeological excavations at the city bulwark connecting point north of
the monumental city gate, Porta Caesarea, performed in 1970, 1972 and 1973, discovered were numerous details that had not been sufficiently known before, especially about parts of the Salonitan fortification system, functioning of the water supply system etc. The excavations were to provide answers to other questions as well, such as reliability of the genesis of the Salona’s earliest urban core, the part of the city considered by many researchers to be the oldest part within the city areal. The excavations produced interesting results, especially in the context of separation of particular stages of building of the city fortifications and recognising the facilities that made important factors in the lives of inhabitants of this part of Salona, the metropolis of the province of Dalmatia. Among significant discoveries – besides
the details related to the wall building technique with two faces of stone blocks connected with transversal walls that are strengthening them, forming the »pockets« (chambers) filled with compressed earth mixed with smaller stones – most certainly is the corner quadran gle tower. At its southern facade preserved are lower parts of windows or doors, and in the vicinity discovered are also corresponding examples of weapons, catapult stone balls, iron spear tips, etc., clearly demonstrating its primary, defensive, function. Discovering the tower enables a more complex analysis of the fortification system concept, not only at this place, but in other parts of Salona as well. Besides the parts of the bulwarks that may have remained from the bulwarks erected as early as in the Republican period, discovered at some places long time ago, discovered are also new parts of the bulwarks built by the same technique (opus quadratum), that also may be supposed to have belonged to earlier stages of their construction. Another important result of the excavations is the discovery
of the water supply system, that is, the canals that follow the bulwark route from north to south, lined with stone slabs made of the local lime stone: the water supply canal is best visible near the opening in the tower, bridging the narrow corridor and continuing along the bulwark that is running to the Porta Caesarea, its northern and on to the southern polygonal tower: they protected the city gate and the entrance into the oldest part of the city, but also made water tanks (castella aquae). The long period of running of water through the canal is visible from the large quantity of tufa in these parts of the water canal and at the bulwark. It is also interesting that in the final part of the water canal, at the part of the bulwark by the opening in the tower, there is an enclosing stone slab perforated with three round openings: through the central opening passed is a lead pipe, preserved around 2 m in length, whereas in the other two perforations there are no pipes. It is justified to assume that lead pipes distributed water to the users in various parts of the city: one branch was directed west, and it seems that through the preserved pipe water was provided to the oldest part of the city, the thermae and the industrial facilities built in the area west of the Porta Caesarea.

Summary: Urban Features in the Location and Raster of the Architecture of Roman Rider (Danilo near Šibenik).
The fertile plateau of the Danilsko polje (field) is known of the famous site of Neolithic culture which was firstly recognized during the excavations of Duje Rendić-Miočević. Still, the main topic of this paper is dedicated to the Rendić-Miočević’s researches, on his attestation of the location of ancient Rider and on epigraphic evidence of municipal leaders who played a significant role in the process of urbanization and Romanization of an indigenous centre. Municipium Riditarum was an autochthonous urban centre of the Illyrian peregrine community of Riditae, situated in the far eastern part of above mentioned Danilsko polje, next to the southern slopes of the Zagora mountain, about 20 km far from the Adriatic coast. The Roman road led from Scardona passing the Krka river, which was the border between the Liburni and Delmatae, and led through Danilsko polje towards Salona. The nucleus of prehistoric settlement Rider was situated on strategically chosen position, on the hillfort called Gradina, on the northern slopes of Danilsko polje. In the turn of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD the political- economic conditions in Rider have been changed due the road building activities, class differentiation among the inhabitants and the urban centre of Rider was transferred from the hillfort into the valley. All of this was confirmed by the Rendić-Miočević’s excavations around the church of St. Daniel and its cemetery Šematorij which was built above the ruins of municipium Riditarum. Beneath the layers of the medieval necropolis were found the traces of Roman public and private architecture, streets, baths, indicative architectonic stone decoration, most possible belonging to the forum with the temple. Its location is only presumed in the area inside and around the church of St. Daniel along with two unexplored parts on the left and right side by the northern entrance to the cemetery.
Keywords: Danilo, Rider, Duje Rendić-Miočević, Roman
architecture, villa, forum.

The necropolis near the village of Dragišić has long attracted attention of the scholars because of the large number of metal object and pottery within the tombs assemblage, from the Liburnian Iron Age material culture, the indigenous community in the north Dalmatia, to the Hellenistic ware. The necropolis in Dragišić is the largest, so far, unearthed necropolis of the indigenous community in the middle East Adriatic, with the 51 excavated tombs with multiple burials. However, the tombs are not so far been entirely analyzed, and in this paper we present the analysis of the Hellenistic ware. Because of the width subject of the paper, we focused on the identification of all types of Hellenistic ware, from the mid-4th to mid-1st c. BC, within tombs assemblages. Due to the large amount of vessels and their fragmentation, where possible, we also present the shapes of vessels that appear most frequently in the tombs of the indigenous necropolis in Dragišić

En 1937, une découverte sensationnelle de bijoux en or de l'époque hellénistique venait d'être faite à Budva sur le littoral monténégrin, à l'endroit où l'on creusait les fondations d'un nouvel hôtel. Les fouilles archéologique, mal organisées à cette époque, montrèrent qu'il s'agissait d'une nécropole appartenant aux habitants de la Budva antique. En 1952 les fouilles sistematiques furent confiées au Musée archéologique de Split, et la direction en fut attribuée à Duje Rendi}-Mio~evi}. Cettes travaux furent soudain arrêtés à la suite d'un malentendu avec les investisseurs et les fouilles sont restées ina-chevées. Duje Rendi}-Mio~evi} ne publia jamais leurs résultats incomplets. Mais il décrivit exhaustivement, en leur don-nant une interprétation scientifique, les bijoux découverts à Budva avant la guerre et, ce qui est plus important encore, révéla aux milieux archéologiques les particularités de la culture illyrienne, dont les reflets les plus fidèles sont justement les produits de fouilles de cimetières mentioné.