The Results of Archaeological Investigation at Rijeka’s Ivana Koblera Square: Traces of Antique Tarsatica

Abstract

Istraživanja provedena na Trgu I. Koblera tijekom travnja i svibnja 2014. godine još su jednom potvrdila arheološku važnost područja riječkog Starog grada te rasvijetlila neka od otvorenih pitanja vezanih uz početke i razvoj urbanizma antičke Tarsatike. Gradnja antičkih objekata čiji su ostatci pronađeni tijekom istraživanja datirana je na temelju pripadajućih pokretnih arheoloških nalaza u 1. stoljeće poslije Krista. Riječ je o vremenu najstarije urbanizacije područja riječkog Starog grada, vremenu u kojem je Tarsatika formirana kao municipij. Pokretni arheološki nalazi koji se mogu datirati u period kasne antike potvrđuju kontinuitet korištenja objekata kroz nekoliko stoljeća.The investigative work performed at the Ivana Koblera square in the course of April and May of 2014 reaffirms the archaeological significance of the ancient core of Rijeka and has elucidated some of the open questions related to the establishment and urban development of antique Tarsatica. The erection of the antique buildings, the remains of which were uncovered in the course of the investigative work, has been dated on the basis of the recovered artefacts to the first century CE. This is the period of the oldest known urban development of the ancient core of Rijeka, the period in which Tarsatica was formed as a municipium. The artefacts that can be dated to the late antique period confirm the continuity of the utilisation of these structures over the span of several centuries

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