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The Emergence of a Common Culture in the
Northern Provinces of the Roman Empire from Britain to the Black Sea
up to 212 A.D. The aim of the project:
to show in the most accessible way possible, how for the first time in the history of the European continent
the culturally monolithic area from the British Islands to the mouth of the Danube came into being. The process
of the cultural unification during the first ages of our era, similar to the processes occuring at present in uniting Europe,
is presented throughout the three subjects: ethnic and
political structures of the bordering region at the time of the first contacts of Rome,
transfer and implementation of the cultural and Roman civilization achievements,
their adaptation by the local societies.
Concrete
effect of the project:
electronic database (visual materials, text, literature of the subject) available in English and other languages,
to the broad recipients in the web, travelling poster exhibition to the countries participating in the project,
international publication of the new research results available at the address
Transformation The main points of presentation:
creatrion of the Roman provincial structures of management and administration as well as the local administration;
emergence and development of the civitates capitals, vici and colonies; implementation and development of
villae landscape as well as exploitation and processing of raw materials; development and changes in cults and religious
sphere, burial rituals, and changes of costumes, literacy and eventually Roman influences in Barbaricum.
The way of presentation:
the most important visual element are be the maps introducing the development in time and space in dynamic frames
providing the subsequent presentations from general to detail. The main stages of development are taken into consideration:
the period of the military control, integration and the situation around A.D. 212, when the free inhabitants of the Empire
were granted Roman citizenship.
Participants of the project:
ten archaeological placówek
(museums, conservatory service departments, research institutes, university departments) from ten countries:
Austria - Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut,
Wien Bulgaria - Археологич. институт и музей, Българска
Академия на науките,
Sofia Czech Republic -
Archeologický
ústav AV ÈR, Holland - Rijksdienst voor het
Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek,
Amersfort Germany- Museum für Antike Schiffahrt, Poland - Instytut
Archeologii UW, Warszawa Romania - Institutul de Arheologie ºi Istoria Artei,
Academia Romanã, Cluj-Napoca Slovakia - Slovenské Národné Muzeum, Bratislava Hungary - Eötvös Loránd-Universität, Budapest Great Britai - Arbeia Roman Fort and Museum,
Duration of the
project:
1.VII.2004 – 30.VI.2007 Polish participation:
The Polish participant is the Department of
Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, University of Warsaw (a responsible person: prof. dr Tadeusz Sarnowski).
Together with the Bulgarian partner we are responsible for the presentation of the provinces situated on the Lower
Danube - the Upper and Lower Moesia, which area covers today four countries, that is Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria
and the Dobrogean part of Romania. Our task then, is uncomparably more difficult than the collegues from other institutions,
who prepare the database and work on their convincing and transparent availability on the basis
of the materials published mainly in their mother tongues, and in their own countries. We have accepted a task of
of making the majority of the maps (35), gathering and i processing the illustrations to almost all, detailed topics,
as well as description of the several subjects (emergence and development of vici,
Greek and Latin languages in the Moesian provinces, legal status of the local civitates and their inhabitants, cults
civitates and the settlements of local inhabitants). Particular emphasis is put on the presentation of
the excavation results
of the expedition of the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw in Bulgaria (the Roman military base at Novae with
its defensive fortifications, headquarters, barracks and hypothetical house of a legionary legate), and partly also in
the Crimea (the sancturary of the Jupiter of Doliche in Balaklava, the Roman military post in Inkerman and farms
from the Roman period in the surroundings of Sevastopol), protected in the 2nd and 3rd cent. by the Roman army from
the Lower Moesia. A great share in visual material prepared and shared by us have digital reconstructions
of different architectural monuments, both from ours and Bulgarian and Romanian field surveys
(a person responsible: mgr J. Kaniszewski). |
© Departament of Archeology of The Roman Provinces