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Kulturni center Vrhnika Tržaška cesta 32 1360 Vrhnika
In the summer of 2006, under the conservatory supervision of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, municipal unit of Ljubljana, the team from the company Tica System d.o.o. conducted the second phase of archaeological excavations in the area of the present day residential village Kočevarjev vrt along the road Ljubljanska cesta in the settlement of Breg in Vrhnika. The excavations at Kočevarjev vrt in 2005 had already given extensive information on the Roman settlement in Breg during the first century AD and a year later, more was added to the story.
During the first century, the core of the early antique village (vicus) Nauportus (the present day Vrhnika) was moved from the area known as Dolge njive to a more suitable area for traffic in Breg along the main road and the river Ljubljanica. In the second half of the first century and in the second century, there was a large warehouse in this area. During the excavations in 2006, they discovered the remains of houses, outbuildings and part of a drainage channel for draining the area with a wooden palisade and woven wicker from the time of the last decade BC and the first decade AD. A larger ditch or channel in the housing-crafts area was filled with many layers containing a large amount of small finds. The pendant – an amulet in the form of a scarab with a human face, the so-called scaraboid – was found in one of the upper layers of the ditch. The scarab had been made in a mould, from pale turquoise faience.
Faience was highly regarded in Egypt, mainly because of its lighting and magical effects. In the first century AD, faience was also used by the Romans to make certain amulets (e.g. phallic appendages, small altars) while glass was already being predominantly used in the manufacture of beads and other pendants. Production of Egyptian imagery in ancient times spread from the Greek workshops to the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Russia. The find of the faience scarab or scaraboid in Vrhnika is the first find of this kind in Slovenia and thus very surprising. This discovery confirms the commercial character of the settlement Nauportus at the junction of the Mediterranean and continental world, whose main activity was trading over long distances. The scaraboid might have been brought to Nauportus as a souvenir from a journey or lost by some trader or traveller who wore it as an amulet for good luck.
Odpiralni čas:
torek – nedelja: 10.00 – 18.00
Razstava Moja Ljubljanica je na
ogled do 13. septembra 2022.
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10,00 EUR družine
2,50 EUR otroci, dijaki, študenti, upokojenci
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Kulturni center Vrhnika
Tržaška cesta 32
1360 Vrhnika