M. Ugarković, E. Visković & D. Tončinić (eds.), Hvarski arhipelag i arheologija dalmatinskih otoka. Izdanja Hrvatskog arheološkog društva, 34, pp 67-92 Zagreb , 2022
It is likely that the indigenous settlement situated on the
area of the Town of Hvar constituted... more It is likely that the indigenous settlement situated on the
area of the Town of Hvar constituted the largest native
community on the island of Hvar in later prehistory.
Although probably smaller than the Parian colony at
Pharos (at the site of the today’s Stari Grad), the Town
of Hvar’s relative importance is indicated by the local
density of burial mounds. Among the 72 mounds discovered
nearby, the tumuli at Vira (HV0015) are of special
significance: the Vira group is better described as a
monument than a cemetery. Although not closely dated,
the authors would argue that these mounds reflect (a)
the ability of some to mobilize the labor and resources
of others in order to memorialize a few members of the
community; (b) conspicuous consumption (of an unknown
scale); and therefore, (c) the existence of an elite
that is at the very least more visible at the Town of Hvar
than anywhere else on the island.
Evidence from archaeological surveys and excavations,
together with a large corpus of underwater finds discovered
off of Hvar’s coast and nearby, shows that, in later
prehistory, and in the subsequent Hellenistic period, the
indigenous population of the Town of Hvar maintained
significant maritime connections that reached out to
nearby islands and across the sea to the Dalmatian mainland
and Italy. We cannot say when or to what extent sea
commerce became subject to elite control and contributed
to elite status, but it seems clear that contacts across
the water led to a concentration of the outward signs of
social success and social difference in the Town of Hvar.
Greek pottery and coins are among such signs. As discussed
above, the Town of Hvar differs from communities
on neighboring islands in that Archaic and Classical
period Greek fine wares are completely absent. “It was
not until the 4th c. BCE, shortly after the establishment
of Pharos, that Greek fine wares first appeared at Hvar.
Likewise, coins from a variety of predominantly Greek
mints make their first appearance in the local archaeological
record of Hvar in the 4th c BCE. They reflect a
new component in the local political economy. Supplementing
a variety of previously existing, socially embedded
exchange types, from gift-giving onward, the appearance
of coinage among the inhabitants of the Town
of Hvar surely also reflects the merging of previously
distinct spheres of exchange. The authors hypothesize
that their use made it easier to conduct transactions involving
novel categories of material culture and novel actors
(i.e., new to Hvar’s natives). Greek pottery, like the
South Italian matt painted vessels of earlier centuries,
would have presented a variety of contents and doubtless
accompanied other things, probably including coins
and all they betoken. Perhaps the most important of all
that was brought in, along with Greek pottery and other
goods, was a worldview, a network of shared cultural
practice and knowledge.
That network tightened shortly thereafter. By the end of
the 3rd c. BCE the Town of Hvar and its immediate vicinity
were in close contact with Issa, only 12 nm away,
which came to dominate the region. It is possible that
the indigenous community of the Town of Hvar then
came under Issaean control and became part of the Issei
koinôn. This lasted for a short time. By 215 BCE Pharos
was under Roman rule and, after 47 BCE all Hvar’s
native communities (including others on nearby islands
and the mainland) became part of the Salona area as civitates
peregrinae.
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Islands Project), as well as the documentation prepared by Željko Peković in 2019, this paper will attempt to summarize the results of previous excavations and field surveys of Purkin Kuk and highlight the complex issues and potential interactions and integrations between the cultural schemes of local and Hellenic populations of the island of Hvar in the pre-Roman era.
that has been subject to detailed study. The site was surveyed in 1994, and a sub-surface sampling
programme was undertaken then as part of the Adriatic Islands Project. This exercise revealed an extended chronology for the site which may stretch from the Middle Bronze Age through to the onset of Greek
colonisation on Vis. Uniquely for similar sites on the island, Talež is only a short distance from a very
large cairn at Vela gomila. The visual connection between these two sites suggests that they are linked.
Previously published project research on the islands of Hvar and Brač identified a complex, probably
ritual, link between enclosures and individual, large cairns, and the data presented here adds to that
debate. This paper also discusses the role of the settlement within the island prior to the establishment
of the Greek colony at Issa and the role of syncretism within island society
Maslinovik hill situated within the chora of Pharos on the Adriatic island of Hvar. After a brief history of
research of the tower, its position and viewshed, attention is paid to the specific features of the building
technique, stratigraphy, analysis of artefacts that were found (predominantly late 4th – early 3rd century
BC), compared with other isolated towers in the Greek world, its price and symbolic function, as well as
the city’s notion of its importance in the defence of their territory.
area of the Town of Hvar constituted the largest native
community on the island of Hvar in later prehistory.
Although probably smaller than the Parian colony at
Pharos (at the site of the today’s Stari Grad), the Town
of Hvar’s relative importance is indicated by the local
density of burial mounds. Among the 72 mounds discovered
nearby, the tumuli at Vira (HV0015) are of special
significance: the Vira group is better described as a
monument than a cemetery. Although not closely dated,
the authors would argue that these mounds reflect (a)
the ability of some to mobilize the labor and resources
of others in order to memorialize a few members of the
community; (b) conspicuous consumption (of an unknown
scale); and therefore, (c) the existence of an elite
that is at the very least more visible at the Town of Hvar
than anywhere else on the island.
Evidence from archaeological surveys and excavations,
together with a large corpus of underwater finds discovered
off of Hvar’s coast and nearby, shows that, in later
prehistory, and in the subsequent Hellenistic period, the
indigenous population of the Town of Hvar maintained
significant maritime connections that reached out to
nearby islands and across the sea to the Dalmatian mainland
and Italy. We cannot say when or to what extent sea
commerce became subject to elite control and contributed
to elite status, but it seems clear that contacts across
the water led to a concentration of the outward signs of
social success and social difference in the Town of Hvar.
Greek pottery and coins are among such signs. As discussed
above, the Town of Hvar differs from communities
on neighboring islands in that Archaic and Classical
period Greek fine wares are completely absent. “It was
not until the 4th c. BCE, shortly after the establishment
of Pharos, that Greek fine wares first appeared at Hvar.
Likewise, coins from a variety of predominantly Greek
mints make their first appearance in the local archaeological
record of Hvar in the 4th c BCE. They reflect a
new component in the local political economy. Supplementing
a variety of previously existing, socially embedded
exchange types, from gift-giving onward, the appearance
of coinage among the inhabitants of the Town
of Hvar surely also reflects the merging of previously
distinct spheres of exchange. The authors hypothesize
that their use made it easier to conduct transactions involving
novel categories of material culture and novel actors
(i.e., new to Hvar’s natives). Greek pottery, like the
South Italian matt painted vessels of earlier centuries,
would have presented a variety of contents and doubtless
accompanied other things, probably including coins
and all they betoken. Perhaps the most important of all
that was brought in, along with Greek pottery and other
goods, was a worldview, a network of shared cultural
practice and knowledge.
That network tightened shortly thereafter. By the end of
the 3rd c. BCE the Town of Hvar and its immediate vicinity
were in close contact with Issa, only 12 nm away,
which came to dominate the region. It is possible that
the indigenous community of the Town of Hvar then
came under Issaean control and became part of the Issei
koinôn. This lasted for a short time. By 215 BCE Pharos
was under Roman rule and, after 47 BCE all Hvar’s
native communities (including others on nearby islands
and the mainland) became part of the Salona area as civitates
peregrinae.
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Islands Project), as well as the documentation prepared by Željko Peković in 2019, this paper will attempt to summarize the results of previous excavations and field surveys of Purkin Kuk and highlight the complex issues and potential interactions and integrations between the cultural schemes of local and Hellenic populations of the island of Hvar in the pre-Roman era.
that has been subject to detailed study. The site was surveyed in 1994, and a sub-surface sampling
programme was undertaken then as part of the Adriatic Islands Project. This exercise revealed an extended chronology for the site which may stretch from the Middle Bronze Age through to the onset of Greek
colonisation on Vis. Uniquely for similar sites on the island, Talež is only a short distance from a very
large cairn at Vela gomila. The visual connection between these two sites suggests that they are linked.
Previously published project research on the islands of Hvar and Brač identified a complex, probably
ritual, link between enclosures and individual, large cairns, and the data presented here adds to that
debate. This paper also discusses the role of the settlement within the island prior to the establishment
of the Greek colony at Issa and the role of syncretism within island society
Maslinovik hill situated within the chora of Pharos on the Adriatic island of Hvar. After a brief history of
research of the tower, its position and viewshed, attention is paid to the specific features of the building
technique, stratigraphy, analysis of artefacts that were found (predominantly late 4th – early 3rd century
BC), compared with other isolated towers in the Greek world, its price and symbolic function, as well as
the city’s notion of its importance in the defence of their territory.
area of the Town of Hvar constituted the largest native
community on the island of Hvar in later prehistory.
Although probably smaller than the Parian colony at
Pharos (at the site of the today’s Stari Grad), the Town
of Hvar’s relative importance is indicated by the local
density of burial mounds. Among the 72 mounds discovered
nearby, the tumuli at Vira (HV0015) are of special
significance: the Vira group is better described as a
monument than a cemetery. Although not closely dated,
the authors would argue that these mounds reflect (a)
the ability of some to mobilize the labor and resources
of others in order to memorialize a few members of the
community; (b) conspicuous consumption (of an unknown
scale); and therefore, (c) the existence of an elite
that is at the very least more visible at the Town of Hvar
than anywhere else on the island.
Evidence from archaeological surveys and excavations,
together with a large corpus of underwater finds discovered
off of Hvar’s coast and nearby, shows that, in later
prehistory, and in the subsequent Hellenistic period, the
indigenous population of the Town of Hvar maintained
significant maritime connections that reached out to
nearby islands and across the sea to the Dalmatian mainland
and Italy. We cannot say when or to what extent sea
commerce became subject to elite control and contributed
to elite status, but it seems clear that contacts across
the water led to a concentration of the outward signs of
social success and social difference in the Town of Hvar.
Greek pottery and coins are among such signs. As discussed
above, the Town of Hvar differs from communities
on neighboring islands in that Archaic and Classical
period Greek fine wares are completely absent. “It was
not until the 4th c. BCE, shortly after the establishment
of Pharos, that Greek fine wares first appeared at Hvar.
Likewise, coins from a variety of predominantly Greek
mints make their first appearance in the local archaeological
record of Hvar in the 4th c BCE. They reflect a
new component in the local political economy. Supplementing
a variety of previously existing, socially embedded
exchange types, from gift-giving onward, the appearance
of coinage among the inhabitants of the Town
of Hvar surely also reflects the merging of previously
distinct spheres of exchange. The authors hypothesize
that their use made it easier to conduct transactions involving
novel categories of material culture and novel actors
(i.e., new to Hvar’s natives). Greek pottery, like the
South Italian matt painted vessels of earlier centuries,
would have presented a variety of contents and doubtless
accompanied other things, probably including coins
and all they betoken. Perhaps the most important of all
that was brought in, along with Greek pottery and other
goods, was a worldview, a network of shared cultural
practice and knowledge.
That network tightened shortly thereafter. By the end of
the 3rd c. BCE the Town of Hvar and its immediate vicinity
were in close contact with Issa, only 12 nm away,
which came to dominate the region. It is possible that
the indigenous community of the Town of Hvar then
came under Issaean control and became part of the Issei
koinôn. This lasted for a short time. By 215 BCE Pharos
was under Roman rule and, after 47 BCE all Hvar’s
native communities (including others on nearby islands
and the mainland) became part of the Salona area as civitates
peregrinae.
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This volume is a corpus of seven hundred Greek graffiti on ceramic artefacts from sixteen sites in Dalmatia, ranging in date from the late sixth to the first century BC. Most notably, the catalogue contains a substantial number of pieces from recent excavations at the two sanctuaries of Diomedes, on the central Adriatic islet of Palagruža and the windswept Cape Ploča. Appearing here in publication for the first time, other than in preliminary reports, the size of these two corpora puts them on a level with other published sites of significance including Naukratis and Gravisca, providing an important contribution to Greek epigraphy. As texts, the materials covered in this volume offer insights into dialect usage and letter forms, and comparisons are made with material from related sites elsewhere.
Table of contents:
Introduction
The sites
Ljubačka kosa
Nin
Zadar
Murter
Cape Ploča
Marina
Trogir
Resnik
Brač
Hvar
Vis
Palagruža
Nakovana
Korčula
Lastovo
Appendix; Ošanići
Bibliography
Index of names
The catalogue, published by the Archaeological Museum at Split, may be optained via [email protected]
The book has 189 pages, 139 illustrations, a summary in English (pp169-180) an extensive bibliography and an index.
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rada bili još studenti arheologije, u gradu Hvaru i bližoj
mu okolici registrirani su raznovrsni nalazi iz brončanog
i željeznog doba, koji su nađeni ili slučajno ili u zaštitnim
arheološkim iskopavanjima, različitima po kvaliteti. Jedini
sustavan terenski rad izveden je 1989. godine na južnoj
padini hvarske tvrđave. Analiza tih podataka, obavljena
u sklopu međunarodnog projekta „Otok Hvar – arheologija
mediteranskog predjela“, pokazala je niz zanimljivih
rezultata, koji upućuju na zaključak da je domorodačko
naselje u gradu Hvaru moglo igrati važnu, ako ne i presudnu
ulogu u tim razdobljima, pogotovo u vrijeme osnutka
grčkog Farosa, na suprotnoj strani otoka. I nakon tih
početnih nemilih zbivanja naselje u gradu Hvaru postoji
i održava veze s vanjskim svijetom te, po svemu sudeći, i s
Farosom i Isom.
Prikazat ćemo karte grada Hvara i njegove okolice, sa 72
gomile, četiri gradine, nekoliko nalazišta na otvorenome,
špilje, podmorske nalaze, metalne nalaze, ulomke lokalne
i apulske mat slikane keramike, unikatnu impasto amfora
costolata iz Etrurije ili Lacija, grčku i helenističku
keramiku, jedan grčki nadgrobni natpis kao i raznovrsne
primjerke novca iz grčkoga, helenističkoga i rimskoga republikanskog
razdoblja.
Usprkos brojnim nejasnoćama koje su posljedica krajnjega
dugogodišnjeg nemara prema arheološkoj baštini Hvara
i neuvažavanja struke, pokušat ćemo, s obzirom na temu
skupa, pokazati kako rezultati koje ovdje prikazujemo
mogu koristiti široj javnosti, osobito Hvaranima.
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Kaštela, Croatia, 2017