Split Archaeological Museum

The Split Archaeological Museum

The Split Archaeological Museum ( Croatian : Arheološki muzej u Splitu , AMS for short ) is an archaeological collection based in the Croatian city ​​of Split . Founded in 1820, the museum houses around 150,000 exhibits from the prehistoric, ancient and medieval history of Dalmatia . The museum still carries out regular archaeological excavations in Issa , Narona and Salona , and has two decentralized archaeological collections in Vid near Metković and on the island of Vis .

history

At the beginning of the 16th century , the Split humanist Dominik Papalic brought together a collection of ancient writing and picture tablets that he and Marko Marulić had found in the ruins of ancient Solin ( Salona ). In 1750 the Archbishop's Museum Split was founded, which kept a large collection of Latin scripts.

Building on these early collections, the Split Archaeological Museum was founded in 1820 by a decree of the Government of the Kingdom of Dalmatia . It is the oldest museum in Croatia. The first museum building was erected east of Diocletian's Palace in 1821 , but it soon became too narrow for the rapidly expanding collections.

The Catholic priest, archaeologist and historical researcher Frane Bulić , director of the museum in Split from 1884, was one of the most outstanding personalities of the museum and worked as a researcher, curator and writer for more than fifty years. He founded the first Croatian archaeological society in 1894 and accompanied the construction of the museum from 1912 to 1914. The museum complex, built according to the plans of the Viennese architects August Kirstein and Friedrich Ohmann in the neo-Romanesque style, consists of a two-story main building (with the exhibition halls on the ground floor and the museum library as well as study rooms on the first floor) and a row of arcades surrounding the main building (for the Lapidarium ) and an attached garden. When the First World War broke out , the new museum building was only opened to the public in early 1922.

Collections

The Split Archaeological Museum has eight collections:

• the Early Christian Collection on Christian Archeology of Dalmatia
• the Old Croatian Collection on the Conquest of the Croats in the Balkans
• the epigraphic collection
• the Greek-Hellenistic collection on the Greek colonization of Dalmatia
• the hydro- archaeological collection on underwater archeology in the Adriatic Sea
• the Numismatic Collection
• the Roman Provincial Collection on the History of the Roman Province of Dalmatia
• the Prehistoric Collection on the history of the Illyrians

The collections of the Archaeological Museum cover the entire history of Dalmatia from prehistory to the early Middle Ages . Of particular importance are prehistoric bone and metal objects, Greek-Hellenistic ceramics, as well as Roman glass and stone work. The museum also has a large collection of ancient and medieval coins (over 70,000) and significant library and archive holdings.

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  Avar-Slavic war ax (approx. 7th to 8th century, i.e. from the time of the Slavic conquest of the Balkans)

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  Roman couple, grave relief from Andetrium

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  Roman epitaph from Salona

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  Roman inscription from Salona

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  Roman epitaph from tilurium

literature

• Željko Rapanić, Zdenko Vinski u. a .: Archaeological Museum Split , Archaeological Museum in Split, Split 1990.
• Dietrich Höllhuber: Croatian Adriatic Coast , DuMont Reiseverlag, Cologne 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vendi Jukić Buča: Arheološki muzej u Splitu ( Croatian ) Arhaeologija. April 24, 2011. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
2. ↑ CIL III, 9782
3. ↑ CIL III, 13975

Web links

Commons : Split Archaeological Museum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Museum (Official Site)
• Croatian Archaeological Society

Coordinates: 43 ° 30 ′ 56 ″  N , 16 ° 26 ′ 4 ″  E