ROMAN ANCIENT PORT IN ZATON, CROATIA
Journal Title: Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici, Archeologia - Year 2011, Vol 2011, Issue 0
Abstract
The research of the antique Aenona’s harbour in Zaton was conducted for numbers years and it is not finished because the harbour still supplies us with a lot of valuable information about Roman trade in the Mediterranean region in first centuries BC. A lot of archaeological material, such as pottery, glass objects, coins and other metal objects found on the site, confirm a scale of exchange which was taking place between Roman provinces. Merchant ships from Gaul, Italy, Greece, Egypt, northern Africa and Near East arrived in the port of Zaton. The results of archaeobotanical and archaeozoological analyses also developed our knowledge about the diet of antique seamen. The discovery of 3 Liburnian shipwrecks is the next step in the studies of local ship building tradition, which has its roots in prehistory. All three Liburnian boats were built in the similar local tradition. Some differences in their construction result from the use of solutions adapted from Roman ship building. One of boats was probably built in the same harbour (or in its neighbourhood) in which it later sink. Complex constructions of ships from the harbour in Zaton confirm an opinion that advanced maritime tradition developed on Dalmatian coast a long time before the appearance of Romans.
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Andrzej Pydyn, Smiljan Gluščević
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