Urbanism of Roman Siscia : : Interpretation of Historical and Modern Maps, Drawings and Plans.

By processing data from every archaeological excavation, and analysis and interpretation of all available historical and modern documents, this volume presents a thorough overview of the structure of Roman Siscia (modern day Sisak, Croatia) and provides a comprehensive starting point for all future...

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Superior document:Archaeopress Roman Archaeology ; v.89
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Place / Publishing House:Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2022.
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Archaeopress Roman Archaeology
Physical Description:1 online resource (217 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Contents Page
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Foreword
  • 1.
  • Introduction
  • 2.
  • Location and urban topography of Siscia according to literary sources
  • 3.
  • 3.1. Excavations in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century
  • 3.
  • Figure 1. Mapped areas of the archaeological and geophysical researches from the 1950s to 2003 (after Bedenko et al. 2003
  • drawn by Renato Cottiero)
  • History of the archaeological research
  • 3.2. Archaeological research in the period 1945-1979
  • 3.3. Archaeological research in the period 1980-2020
  • 3.4. Similar works (syntheses)
  • 4.
  • 4.
  • Figure 2. Tabula Peutingeriana with the first known pictorial representation of Siscia from the 4th century (http://www.tabula-peutingeriana.de
  • http://www.onb.ac.at)
  • Figure 3. Hereford Mappa Mundi (13th cent.), a detail showing Siscia (http://www.herefordcathedral.org/
  • www.unesco.org/.../hereford-mappa-mundi)
  • Figure 4. Siscia and its surrounding: the network of roads and water courses (the rivers Sava, Odra, and Lonja with their tributaries) (Marsigli n.d.)
  • Figure 5. Marsigli's plan of Siscia from 1726 (Marsigli 1726)
  • Figure 6. Marsigli's plan of Siscia from the beginning of the 18th cent. (Marsigli, n.d.: 1044,n.101,fasc. A)
  • Figure 7. North gate of Siscia (Marsigli n.d.)
  • Figure 8. Remains of the eastern town wall (Marsigli n.d.)
  • Figure 10. Cross section of the western stretch of the town walls and the bank of the Kupa (Marsigli n.d.)
  • Figure 9. Cross section of the eastern stretch of the town walls (Marsigli n.d.)
  • Figure 11. Cross section of a channel, probably part of the sewage system (Marsigli n.d.)
  • Figure 12. View of the remains of the bridge and a channel outflow on the left bank of the Kupa (Marsigli n.d.).
  • Figure 13. Remains of buildings of Roman Siscia (Marsigli n.d.)
  • Figure 14. Field drawing of the remains of buildings of Siscia in Sisak at the beginning of the 18th century (Marsigli, n.d.)
  • Figure 15. Canal dug between the rivers Kupa and Sava (Marsigli n.d.)
  • Figure 16. Detail of a drawing in pencil, showing the pavement of the developed bank of the Kupa (Marsigli n.d.)
  • Figure 17. Cross section of the channel emptying into the Kupa on its left bank (Marsigli n.d.)
  • Figure 18. Field drawing with elevations: the location of the remains of a bridge between the northern and southern gates? (Marsigli n.d.)
  • Figure 19. Detail of the Hydrographic map of Sisak from 1783 (Cartographic Collection of the War Archive in Vienna, after Slukan Altić 2004)
  • Figure 20. Map of Sisak by M. Stariczky from 1783 (The National Library, Budapest, after Vuković 2010)
  • Figure 21. Detail of the 1813 map from the period of French rule (Cartographic Collection of the Chapter Archive in Zagreb).
  • Figures 22 and 23. Cadastral plan of Stari Sisak (Old Sisak) predating the urbanist regulation, and the plan by I. Fistrović superposed on the cadastral plots of Ludovik Zelenika from 1842 (Cartographic Collection of the Chapter Archive in Zagreb)
  • Figure 24. Map by I. Fistrović "Regulation basis" from 1829 (the Collection of the State Archive in Sisak)
  • Figure 25. Hydrographic map from 1853 (the Collection of the State Archive in Sisak)
  • Figure 26. Cadastral map of Sisak from 1861 (the State Geodetic Administration, the State Cadastral Office in Sisak)
  • Figure 27. Map of Sisak from 1901 (Cartographic Collection of the Sate Archive)
  • Cartographic sources
  • 4.1. Classical and medieval cartography featuring symbolical depictions of Siscia
  • 4.2. Cartography of Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli
  • 4.2.1. The layout of Sisak in its wider surroundings.
  • 4.2.2. Siscia - its layout, shape, and gateways
  • 4.2.3. The street grid and infrastructure
  • 4.2.4. The bridge and outflows of channels
  • 4.2.5. Buildings, remains of buildings, ruins
  • 4.2.6. Tiberius' ditch
  • 4.2.7. The relation between the Kupa River and Siscia
  • 4.3. Cartography in the 18th to 20th centuries
  • 5.
  • Figure 28. Block 1: Bana Jelačiać Sq. - V. Nazora Promenade - S. S. Kranjčevića St.
  • Figure 29. E-W cross-section of the town wall in Bana J. J. Jelačića Sq. (excavations in 1997
  • made by: T. Lolić)
  • Figure 30. E-W cross-section of the town wall at the bank of the Kupa (after Marsigli n.d., fig. III, detail)
  • Figure 31. View of the town walls with the foundation extension in Bana J. Jelačića Sq. (photo: T. Lolić)
  • Figure 32. Stone reinforcement of a crack in the town wall in Bana J. Jelačića Sq. (photo: M. Arbutina)
  • Figure 33. Detail of the brick and stone town wall with the corner tower in Bana J. Jelačića Sq. (photo: M. Arbutina)
  • Figure 34. View of the town walls with the tower and the horreum after the conservation and presentation (photo: M. Arbutina)
  • A - D: Tower 1 (the internal tower on Franje Lovrića St
  • after Burmaz 2007)
  • Tower 2 (the external tower on A. Starčevića St
  • after Vuković 1994)
  • Tower 3 (the internal tower in Bana J. Jelačića Sq.
  • after Lolić 2003)
  • Tower 4 (the western entrance towe
  • Figure 35. Layout of the tower in the system of the town walls (drawn by T. Lolić on the basis of the data by authorized surveyor I. Hapčić)
  • Figure 36. Walls of the west entrance tower: a view from the north (photo: M. Arbutina)
  • Figure 37. Dimensions of the west entrance tower (drawing: T. Lolić)
  • Figure 38. View of the extension of the western wall of the entrance tower (photo: M. Arbutina).
  • Figure 39. Results of the geophysical and archaeological research in Bana J. Jelačića Sq., showing the interrupted line of the town walls (Lolić 2003, after Mušič 2000)
  • Figure 40. Marsigli's drawing of Severilla's sarcophagus (Marsigli n.d.: 1044, n.101. fasc. A)
  • Figure 41. Plan and cross-section of two tile child graves found within the town walls in the vicinity of the tower (surveyed by: I. Petrinec, drawn by: T. Lolić)
  • Figure 42. Results of archaeological and geophysical research (Miloglav and Mušić 2013)
  • Figure 43. Detail of the 1873 hydrographic map of Sisak (the War Archive in Vienna)
  • Figures 44, 45, and 46. Examples of 18th-century maps showing the ditch or water zone around Sisak (Marsigli n.d.
  • Hidrografska karta 1783
  • Hydrographic map 1793).
  • Figure 47. Schematic drawing of the excavated part of the Roman building and street in Bana J. Jelačića Sq. (made by: T. Lolić)
  • Figure 48. Building from the 1st to 2nd centuries (A), overlaid by the horreum complex (B), and connected with a street whose kerb (C) and remains of the pedestrian area (D) are visible in the photograph (photo: M. Arbutina)
  • Figure 49. Pedestal of the horreum building with a reused cippus in Bana J. Jelačić Sq. (photo: M. Arbutina)
  • Figure 50. Schematic drawing of the 4th-century building (presumed grain warehouse or horreum) in Bana J. Jelačića Sq. (made by: T. Lolić)
  • Figure 51. Cross-section A-A of the horreum (11b, 24, 25) and its relationship with the 1st- to 2nd-centuries structure (40). Layer 1: the modern cemetery
  • layer 48: Roman building material (tegulae, bricks) mixed with modern-cemetery remains
  • layer 33: a
  • Figure 52. View of the horreum from the west (photo: M. Arbutina)
  • Figure 53. View of the SE buttressed external wall of the horreum (photo: M. Arbutina).
  • Figure 54. View of the pedestals in the horreum (photo: M. Arbutina)
  • Figures 55 and 55A. View of the stone block, possibly part of an architectural entrance into the horreum (photo: M. Arbutina)
  • Figure 56. Three phases of the rearrangement of the horreum (made by: T. Lolić)
  • Figure 57. Collapsed roof structure of the portico in the south cross-section of the dig (photo: M. Arbutina)
  • Figure 60. Pedestals revealing two construction phases (Phase 1 and Phase 2) and the stratigraphic relationship between the horreum and the 1st- to 2nd-century building (photo: M. Arbutina)
  • Figures 58 and 59. Square column from Phase 1 with shallow-founded side columns annexed in Phase 2
  • two excavation phases of the same support column (photo: M. Arbutina)
  • Plate 1. Plan of Block 1 (made by: T. Lolić)
  • Figure 61. Block 2: S. S. Kranjčevića St-A. i S. Radića St-I. K. Sakcinskog St-Rimsla St-Šetnica
  • Figure 62. Plan of the assumed line of the west and south town walls based on archeologically investigated section A, B, and C (T. Lolić)
  • Figure 63. East edge of the west town walls of Siscia excavated by City Museum Sisak (after Tomaš Barišić 2012)
  • Figure 64. Šetnica, a suggested reconstruction of the building next to the west town wall based on the elevations, building material and the presumed plan (after Tomaš Barišić 2012)
  • Figure 65. Šetnica, a 2nd to 3rd-century building (after Tomaš Barišić 2012 and Vuković 1994)
  • Figure 66. No. 5 Rimska St: a - a 1st to 2nd-century complex (?)
  • b - a 2nd to 3rd-century building (?)
  • c - 1st-century architecture (?)
  • d - the findspot of the inscription to Trajan (after Schloissnigg)
  • Figure 69. Interpretation 1 (T. Lolić)
  • Figure 70. Interpretation 2 (T. Lolić).
  • Figures 67 and 68. Plans of the site Rimska pivnica (Roman beer hall) from 1868: Spomenica … and the AMZ (The first drawing is taken from Vuković 1994, and the second from Vukelić 2011).