This study concerns the microfacies characterization of white and black limestone tesserae from selected Roman floor mosaics in Slovenia, with the aim of defining their provenance. We investigated 42 tesserae from 15 different mosaics from the archaeological sites of Ljubljana, Izola, Mošnje, Ptuj, Črnomelj and Šentpavel, dated from the first century BC to the fifth century AD. Among the studied tesserae, 13 different microfacies were identified: eight black and five white. The most common were mudstones with ostracods (65% of black tesserae) and wacke-packstones with miliolids (85% of white tesserae). The majority of the identified facies can be found in the Cretaceous successions of the Dinaric Carbonate Platform in southwestern Slovenia, north-eastern Italy and south-eastern Croatia, suggesting a regional or imported origin of the tesserae.

This study concerns the investigation of mortar layers and pigments of wall paintings from the Roman town of Emona (Ljubljana, Slovenia). Fragments of wall paintings consist of up to three preserved mortar layers. The mineralogical–petrographic compositions of the mortars were determined by means of optical microscopy and FT–IR spectroscopy. The investigated samples were divided into several groups based on similar thicknesses of the mortar layer, the binder colour and the composition of an aggregate. Furthermore, the results of mercury intrusion porosimetry showed that mortar layers consisting of carbonate grains exhibited lower porosity with respect to layers with mainly silicate grains, which is attributed to the angular shapes of carbonate aggregate. This is in accordance with the drilling resistance measurement system test (DRMS), confirming that layers with angular carbonate grains are harder than those with addition of rounded silicate ones, due to the good packing effect. The wall paintings were mainly executed using the fresco technique, while for some details secco was used. The identified pigments were red and yellow ochre, green earth, Egyptian blue, carbon black and lime white; all of them belonged to the so‐called austere pigment, which is quite common in Roman wall paintings.

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Studia universitatis hereditati je humanistična znanstvena revija za raziskave in teorijo kulturne dediščine z mednarodnim uredniškim odborom. Objavlja znanstvene in strokovne članke s širšega področja kulturne dediščine (arheologija, arhitektura, etnologija, jezikoslovje, literarna, kulturna, glasbena, intelektualna, religijska, vojaška zgodovina, zgodovina idej itn.) in pregledne članke ter recenzije tako domačih kot tujih monografij z omenjenih področij. Revija izhaja dvakrat letno. Izdajata jo Fakulteta za humanistične študije (Oddelek za arheologijo in dediščino) in Založba Univerze na Primorskem. Poglavitni namen revije je prispevati k razvoju raziskav kulturne dediščine v najširšem in k topoglednemu interdisciplinarnemu pristopu k teoretičnim in praktičnim raziskovalnim vprašanjem. Tako revija posebno pozornost namenja razvoju slovenske znanstvene in strokovne terminologije, konceptov in paradigem na področju raziskovanja kulturne dediščine v okviru humanističnih ved. Glavni in odgovorni urednik dr. Gregor Pobežin (Fakulteta za humanistične študije Univerze na Primorskem, Koper) Urednici številke dr. Zrinka Mileusnić in dr. Alenka Tomaž (Fakulteta za humanistične študije Univerze na Primorskem, Koper) Tehnična ureditev revije, oblikovanje in prelom dr. Jonatan Vinkler (Fakulteta za humanistične študije Univerze na Primorskem, Koper) Lektor (slovenska besedila) Davorin Dukič (Univerza na Primorskem, Koper)

This paper considers three specific artifact sets and mortuary practices occurring in the Roman southeastern Alpine world from the first to third centuries ad. These are the 'Norican-Pannonian' costume set, the 'Norican-Pannonian' barrow phenomenon, and the Latobici 'House' urns. These funerary practices and objects have generally been interpreted as expressions of ethnic, social, and gender identities and as spatial boundaries connected with pre-Roman groups in the area. While current interpretations see the presence of Roman material culture as reflecting the Roman conquest, organization, and administration of the provinces-i.e. debates on Romanization that often concentrate on dichotomies between pre-Roman socio-political groups vs. 'Romans'; civilians vs. soldiers; and elites vs. non-elites-this paper seeks to reexamine earlier explanations by drawing attention to the facets of personal and group identities that may be reflected upon (or negotiated) through these phenomena.