| Title: | Provenance analysis of Roman stone artefacts from sedimentary rocks from the archaeological site near Mošnje, NW Slovenia |
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| Authors: | ID Miletić, Snježana (Author)
ID Dolenec, Sabina (Author)
ID Lux, Judita (Author)
ID Šmuc, Andrej (Author)
ID Zupančič, Nina (Author) |
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 URL - Source URL, visit https://doi.org/10.5474/geologija.2016.003
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  ZAG - Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute
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| Abstract: | This study deals with the macroscopic and microfacies characterisation of Roman stone artefacts excavated in
2006 from a Roman villa rustica near Mošnje (NW Slovenia) with the aim of defining their provenance. A total of 28 representative finds (querns, mortars, whetstones, tooled and rounded stones, a fragment of stone slab, mosaic tesserae and two architectural elements - one with a relief) made of clastic and carbonate sedimentary rocks were examined. Comparison was made with rock samples taken from quarries and gravel bars close to the archaeological site, as well as from larger distance to the site. The majority of artefact sampled is composed of Upper Palaeozoic quartz sandstones, which are found as pebbles in gravel bars close to the archaeological site; while 2 samples were from Quaternary coarse grained clastic rocks which can be found in local glacio-fluvial Sediments. Other finds were made of four different Mesozoic shallow-water limestones which outcrop in different areas of Central and SW Slovenia. The nearest Lower Jurassic biopelmicritic limestones are found at the western periphery of Ljubljana in Podutik. Cretaceous miliolid limestones and biocalcarenitic limestones with rudists are common in the successions of the Dinaric Carbonate Platform in SW Slovenia (for example, on the Trieste-Komen Plateau), NE Italy and SW Croatia. This indicates that the limestones for architectural elements, stone mortars and tesserae were brought to Mošnje from distant locations. Smaller stone tools are likely to have been made at the location of the archaeological site from material gathered locally, mostly pebbles from clastic rocks, which were accessible and suitable for tooling. |
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| Keywords: | arheološke izkopanine, rimljani, sedimentne kamnine, apnenec, mikrofacies, izvor kamnine, arheološko najdišče, Slovenija |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 11.08.2016 |
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| Publisher: | Geološki zavod Slovenije |
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| Year of publishing: | 2016 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 35-53 |
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| Numbering: | 59, št. 1 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-21151  |
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| UDC: | 55:902(497.4) |
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| ISSN on article: | 0016-7789 |
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| DOI: | 10.5474/geologija.2016.003 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 2547029 |
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| Copyright: | © Author(s) 2016 |
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 08.01.2025 |
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