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Buried Far Away: Easterners in Roman Liburnia

Ancient Liburnia, stretching along the Eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, has always been a sea-faring region, and its people - the Liburni - have always been regarded as notorious pirates and sea-people. As such, the region has been visited by foreigners from both the West and the East. Greeks sailed across the Adriatic since the 6th century BCE, but travellers from the Greek mainland visited the region even in the more remote past, judging by finds of the Mycenaean pottery at several Adriatic sites. In this contribution the authors shall look into the foreigners of the Eastern origins who came to Roman Liburnia and died there during the first three centuries CE, and investigate the ways they were buried in this land so far from their homelands. Due to exact written records left at their epitaphs - mostly belonging to soldiers of legions and auxiliary units, but to some seamen and traders, as well - the authors shall analyse distribution of their homelands and investigate whether there were some peculiarities with regard to their burial customs. In addition to these foreigners of unambiguous Eastern origins, the authors shall also take into consideration other persons who might have also been Easterners, either because of the particular religious affiliations (such as, e. g., an archigallus buried in Iader), anthroponymy, use of the Greek language and/or writing, and similar. This analysis shall also look into the specific grave goods that strongly indicate Eastern origins of those buried within these graves, and investigate whether there were some particular burial customs and/or tomb types that would indicate the same. Furthermore, the authors shall also take into consideration the influences which originated form the western territories of Roman state and compare them to the eastern ones.

Roman Liburnia; Foreigners of Eastern origins; Burial customs; Epigraphy; Anthroponymy

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