Andautonia

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Andautonia was a Roman settlement in Croatia on the south side of the Sava River southwest of the city of Zagreb . Today the village of Šćitarjevo is located there .

The settlement was in the Roman province of Pannonia on the road that connected Poetovia (today's Ptuj) and Siscia (today's Sisak). The name Andautonia was mentioned by the geographer Ptolemy . In the Itinerarium Antonini , a directory of Roman roads, the name Dautonia is used. The road connected Andautonia with Poetovium, on the road there were also Pyrri and Aquaviva in the north and Siscia in the south. The settlement existed between the 1st and 4th centuries, after which it was probably destroyed during the Great Migration .

The name of the settlement was first discovered in 1758 on a stone tablet in Stenjevec . Another tablet was found in 1768 in Šćitarjevo. During the 19th century, Roman stones and bricks found in the village area were recycled for new buildings. The traces of the historical settlement above ground were thus destroyed, the exact location of the settlement was forgotten. The exact location has been controversial, historians and geographers such as Johannes de Laet , Pierre M. Lapie , Christian Gottlieb Reichard , Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville , Baltazar Adam Krčelić , Andrija Blašković , Matija Petar Katančić and Ivan Kukuljević-Sakcinski tried that Locate settlement. In 1873 Theodor Mommsen was able to determine the exact location and publish it in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum . The Zagreb Archaeological Museum started a first excavation in Šćitarjevo and found various Roman artifacts one meter deep.

The museum staff returned to the excavation several times between 1969 and 1980. From 1981 they also examined the rectory garden in the center of the village. They found traces of streets, sewers, various buildings, city walls and a necropolis . In 1994 an archaeological park was established in the village.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Šime Ljubić: Andautonia (Šćitarjevo) . In: Journal of the Zagreb Archaeological Museum . tape 5 , no. 1 , November 1883, p. 1 (Croatian, online ).
  2. ↑ Šime Ljubić: Andautonia (Šćitarjevo) . In: Journal of the Zagreb Archaeological Museum . tape 5 , no. 1 , November 1883, p. 10 (Croatian, online ).
  3. ↑ a b c Dora Kušan, Dorica Nemeth-Ehrlich: Arheološki park Andautonija u Ščitarjevu . In: Museum documentation center (ed.): Informatica Museologica . tape 25 , no. 1-4 . Zagreb January 1996, p. 30 (Croatian, online ).
  4. ↑ Šime Ljubić: Andautonia (Šćitarjevo) . In: Journal of the Zagreb Archaeological Museum . tape 5 , no. 1 , November 1883, p. 1 ff . (Croatian, online ).
  5. ↑ Šime Ljubić: Andautonia (Šćitarjevo) . In: Journal of the Zagreb Archaeological Museum . tape 5 , no. 1 , November 1883, p. 12 (Croatian, online ).
  6. ↑ Šime Ljubić: Andautonia (Šćitarjevo) . In: Journal of the Zagreb Archaeological Museum . tape 5 , no. 1 , November 1883, p. 1–9 (Croatian, online ).
  7. ↑ Šime Ljubić: Andautonia (Šćitarjevo) . In: Journal of the Zagreb Archaeological Museum . tape 5 , no. 1 , November 1883, p. 11 ff . (Croatian, online ).

Coordinates: 45 ° 46 '24.8 "  N , 16 ° 7' 0.7"  E