Emona

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Colonia Iulia Aemona
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Location of Emona in modern Ljubljana
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Alternative nameTemplate:Pluralize from textEmona, Aemona
TypeCastrum, Colonia (after 43 AD)
Place in the Roman world
ProvinceItalia
Administrative unitVenetia et Histria
LimesClaustra Alpium Iuliarum
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Structure
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Built during the reign ofSecond Triumvirate, Gaius Calvisius Sabinus, Lucius Marcius Censorinus
Built35 BC
Size and area540 m × 430 m (23.2 ha)
ShapeRectangular
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— Legions —
Events35 BC - AD 43, Colonia AD 43 - 452
Location
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Place nameLjubljana
TownLjubljana
CountyCity Municipality of Ljubljana
CountrySlovenia
Site notes
ConditionRuined
ExhibitionsCity Museum of Ljubljana
Websitewww.mgml.si/en/city-museum-of-ljubljana-377/archaeological-park-emona/

Emona (early Template:Langx)[1] (or Aemona [short for Script error: No such module "Lang".]) was a Roman castrum, located in the area where the navigable Nauportus[2] River came closest to Castle Hill,[3] serving the trade between the city's settlers – colonists from the northern part of Roman Italy – and the rest of the empire. Emona was the region's easternmost city,[4] although it was assumed formerly that it was part of the Pannonia or Illyricum, but archaeological findings from 2008 proved otherwise.

The Visigoths camped by Emona in the winter of 408/9, the Huns attacked it during their campaign of 452, the Langobards passed through on their way to Italy in 568, and then came incursions by the Avars and Slavs. The ancient cemetery in Dravlje indicates that the original inhabitants and invaders were able to live peacefully side by side for several decades. After the first half of the 6th century, there was no life left in Emona.[3] The 18th-century Ljubljana Renaissance elite shared the interest in Antiquity with the rest of Europe, attributing the founding of Ljubljana to the mythical Jason and the Argonauts.[3] Other ancient Roman towns located in present-day Slovenia include Nauportus (now Vrhnika), Celeia (now Celje), Neviodunum (now the village of Drnovo) and Poetovio (now Ptuj).

History

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Reconstructed inscription (presumably talking about building town walls), dated in time between autumn AD 14 and spring of AD 15. The inscription has the names of emperors Augustus and Tiberius. The grey part was discovered in 1887, and the rest is a reconstruction. Presumably, this artifact was built into the wall above one of the town gates. From the collection of the National Museum of Slovenia in Ljubljana.[5]

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During the 1st century BC a Roman military stronghold was built on the site of the present Ljubljana, below Castle hill. Construction of the Roman settlement of Emona, fortified with strong walls, followed in AD 14. It had a population of 5,000 to 6,000 people, mostly merchants and craftsmen. The town had its own goddess, Equrna, and was also an important Early Christian centre. Emona's administrative territory or ager stretched from Atrans (Trojane) along the Karawanks mountains towards the north, near Višnja Gora to the east, along the Kolpa River in the south, and bordered to the west with the territory of Aquileia at the village of Bevke.

According to Ammianus Marcellinus, one of the reasons for the war between Licinius and Constantine the Great was that Licinius destroyed the busts and statues of Constantine at Emona.[8]

After few months of occupation in 388, the citizens of Emona saluted Emperor Theodosius I entering the liberated city after the victorious Battle of the Save, where Theodosius I defeated the army of the Roman usurper Magnus Maximus.

Historical descriptions

According to Herodotus, Emona was founded by Jason, when he travelled through the country with the Argonauts, and named by him in honour of his Thessalian homeland. Sozomen wrote that when the Argonauts left from the Aeetes, they returned from a different route, crossed the sea of Scythia, sailed through some of the rivers there, and when they were near the shores of Italy, they built a city in order to stay at the winter, which they called Emona.[1] Zosimus wrote that after they left from the Aeetes, they arrived at the mouth of the Ister River which it discharges itself into the Black Sea and they went up that river against the stream, by the help of oars and convenient gales of wind. After they managed to do it, they built the city of Emona as a memorial of their arrival there.[9]

According to the 18th-century historian Johann Gregor Thalnitscher, the original predecessor of Emona was founded c. 1222 BC. (The date, although based on legend and poetic speculation, actually fits in both with Herodotus' account and the date of the earliest archaeological remains found so far).[citation needed]

According to 1938 article by the historian Balduin Saria, Emona was founded in late AD 14 or early AD 15, on the site of the Legio XV Apollinaris, after it left for Carnuntum, by a decree of Emperor Augustus and completed by his successor, Emperor Tiberius. Later archaeological findings have not rejected nor clearly confirmed this hypothesis and it is currently (as of 2014) most widely accepted.[10]

Location and layout

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Roman cup of multicolored glass, made with the millefiori technique. It was discovered in one of the graves of Emona.

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The location of Emona overlaps with the southwest part of the old nucleus of the modern city of Ljubljana. In a rectangle with a central square or forum and a system of rectangular intersecting streets, Emona was laid out as a typical Roman town. According to Roman custom, there were cemeteries along the northern, western, and eastern thoroughfares into the city – from the directions of Celeia, Aquileia, and Neviodunum.[12] The wider area surrounding the town saw the development of typical Roman countryside: villages, hamlets, estates, and brickworks.[3]

Archaeological findings

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Location within Roman Italy.

Archaeological findings have been found in every construction project in the center of Ljubljana. Intensive archaeological research on Emona dates back 100 years, although it was the Roman town was portrayed from the 17th century onward. Numerous remains have been excavated there, such as parts of the Roman wall, residential houses, statues, tombstones, several mosaics, and parts of the early Christian baptistery, which can be still seen today.[10]

Regarding its location within Roman Italy, in 2001 a boundary stone between Aquileia and Emona was discovered in the vicinity of Bevke in the bed of the Ljubljanica River. The stone is made of Aurisina limestone. Because similar stones were only used to demarcate two communities belonging to the same Roman province and because it is not disputed that Aquileia belonged to Roman Italy, this means that both towns belonged to Italy and that Emona was never part of Illyricum (or, later, of the province of Pannonia).[4]

Archaeological parks and preserving of the heritage

The architect Jože Plečnik redesigned the remains of the Roman walls: he cut two new passages to create a link to Snežnik Street (Template:Langx) and Murnik Street (Template:Langx), and behind the walls he arranged a park displaying architectural elements from Antiquity, with a stone monument collection in the Emona city gate. Above the passageway to Murnik Street he set up a pyramid, which he covered with turf. After the Second World War, attempts were made to embed references to Emona grid into modern Ljubljana, with the Roman forum becoming part of the Ferant Park apartment blocks and an echo of the rotunda located along Slovenia Street (Template:Langx).[3]

Bishopric

A Christian diocese of Aemona was originally based in the city, from the late 4th to the late 6th century.

Its bishop Maximus participated in the Council of Aquileia, 381, which condemned Arianism.

It had intensive contacts with the ecclesiastical circle of Milan, reflected in the architecture of the early Christian complex along Erjavec Street in present-day Ljubljana.

Emona in literary fiction

  • Emona is the setting of a 1978 novel Tujec v Emoni (Stranger in Emona) by Mira Mihelič.
  • Emona is mentioned in Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel The Historian.
  • The four volumes of the 2014 series Rimljani na naših tleh (Romans on our soil) by Ivan Sivec describe Emona in various epochs.
  • Several chapters of the novel series Romanike are set in Emona.[13]

References

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sozomenos, Ecclesiastical History, §1.6". Archived from the original on 2020-08-15. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kos, Marjeta Šašel (2015). The Disappearing Tombstone and Other Stories from Emona. Založba ZRC. p. 6. ISBN 978-9612547646.
  3. ^ a b c d e Exhibition catalogue Emona: myth and reality Script error: No such module "webarchive".; Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana 2010
  4. ^ a b Šašel Kos, M. (2002) "The boundary stone between Aquileia and Emona", Arheološki Vestnik 53, pp. 373–382.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."O najstarejšem napisu iz Emone. Kronika (Ljubljana) 3(2): 110–113. URN:NBN:SI:doc-F259ED85 from http://www.dlib.si" (.pdf). Jaroslav Šašel. 1955. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  6. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Roman Emona". Culture.si. Ministry of culture of the republic of Slovenia. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Emona, Legacy of a Roman City". Culture.si. Ministry of culture of the republic of Slovenia. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
  8. ^ Ammianus Marcellinus, History, V1.5.15
  9. ^ Zosimus, New History, 5.29
  10. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Šašel Kos, Marjeta (September 2012). "2000 let Emone? Kaj bomo praznovali?" [2000 Years of Emona? What Will We Celebrate?] (PDF). Ljubljana: glasilo Mestne občine Ljubljana [Ljubljana: The Bulletin of the City Municipality of Ljubljana] (in slovenščina). 17 (7): 28–29. ISSN 1318-797X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-02-20.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Emonski vodovod". DEDI. Ministry of higher education, science and technology of the republic of Slovenia. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stemberger, Kaja (2019-12-12). "Full archives, meaningless data? What artefacts can tell about age and gender at large-scale cemeteries (case study Colonia Iulia Emona)". Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal. 2 (1): 8. doi:10.16995/traj.369. ISSN 2515-2289.
  13. ^ The Romanike Series Script error: No such module "webarchive"., by Codex Regius (2006-2014)
  14. ^ Bernarda Županek (2010) "Emona, Legacy of a Roman City", Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Ljubljana.

Further reading

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