Tributes to the enigmatic dea Dard(…) show a typically Roman political and religious intention to show respect for a local deity, within the framework of the control of isolated but strategic areas in the heart of the Illyrian region and the province of Moesia Superior. These acts of piety reflect the desire on the part of the Roman authorities to carry out diplomatic action with the local population, particularly in the vicinity of the stationes, often away from the legions and officia of which they were a detachment. In any case, these dedications cannot be considered irrefutable proof of the resistance of a Dardanian identity to the Roman order. They do, of course, suggest that the cult of these local and enigmatic deities had survived in the heart of the province of Moesia Superior. The paradox lies in the fact that we know more about the existence of these local deities thanks to the tributes of Roman soldiers, even if their names remain unknown.
Purchase
Buy instant access (PDF download and unlimited online access):
Institutional Login
Log in with Open Athens, Shibboleth, or your institutional credentials
Personal login
Log in with your brill.com account
Benabou, M. (1976). La résistance africaine à la romanisation. Paris.
Ben Abdallah, Z. B. (1996). Inscriptions de Ksar Lemsa. L’Africa romana 11, pp. 1355-1367.
Berisha, M., Drafehn, A., Gashi, S., Gauß, R., Helfert, M., Luci, K., Lüth, F., Mertl, P., Reichler, S., Schafferer, G., and Teichner, F. (2012). Archäologisch-geophysikalische Prospektion im Kosovo-Erste Resultate einer bilateralen Forschungskooperation. AA 6, pp. 65-92.
Birley, A.R. (2008). Cives Galli de(ae) Galliae concordes Britanni. A Dedication at Vindolanda. AC 77, pp. 171-187.
Bojović, D. (1996). Le Camp de la Légion IV Flavia à Singidunum. In : P. Petrović, ed., Roman Limes on the Middle and Lower Danube, Belgrade, pp. 53-68.
Campbell, J. B. (1994). The Roman Army (31 BC-AD 337). Oxford.
Camps, G. (1954). L’inscription de Béja et le problème des Dii Mauri. Revue Africaine 2, pp. 233-260.
Camps, G. (1990). Qui sont les Dii Mauri ? AntAfr 26, pp. 131-153.
Cermanović-Kuzmanović, A. (1963). Die Denkmäler des thrakischen Heros in Jugoslavien. Archaeologia Iugoslavica 4, pp. 31-57.
Čerškov, E. (1957). Oko problema komunikacija i položaj naselja na Kosovu i Metohiji. Buletini i Muzeut të Kosovës 2, pp. 65-85.
Chastagnol, A., ed. (1994). Histoire Auguste. Les Empereurs romains des IIe et IIIe siècles. Paris.
Clauss, M. (1973). Untersuchungen zu den Principales des römischen Heeres von Augustus bis Diokletian. Cornicularii, speculatores, frumentarii, Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Dana, D., et Ricci, C. (2013). I culti dei militari traci nelle province danubiane (ad eccezione della Mesia Inferiore). In : L. Zerbini, ed., Culti e religiosità nelle province danubiane. Atti del II Convegno Internazionale Ferrara 20-22 novembre 2013, Bologne, pp. 99-135.
Dana, D., et Ricci, C. (2014). Divinità provinciali nel cuore dell’Impero. Le dediche dei militari traci nella Roma imperiale. MEFRA 126, pp. 511-529.
Detschew, D. (1957). Die thrakischen Sprachreste. Vienne.
Dobruna-Salihu, D. (2005). Plastika decorative dhe figurative e gurit në Dardani gjatë kohës romake, sepulkrale dhe e kultit, Vol. 2. Prishtina.
Dobruna-Salihu, E. (2011). Altari i deae dardanicae dhe stacioni beneficiar nga vendenisi. Iliria 35, pp. 243-254.
Dobruna-Salihu, E. (2012). Votivna ara deae dardanicae i beneficijarna postaja iz Vendenisa. Vjesnik Arheološkog Muzeja u Zagrebu 45, pp. 217-224.
Dumézil, G. (1974). La religion romaine archaïque. Paris.
Fentress, E. (1978). Dii Mauri et Dii Patri. Latomus 38, pp. 507-516.
Duridanov, I. (1995). VIII. Historische Entwicklung der Namen : 120. Thrakische und Dakische Namen. In : E. Eichler, et al., eds., Namensforschung. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Onomastik / Name Studies. International Handbook of Onomastics, Berlin/New York, pp. 820-840.
Dušanić, S. (2000). Army and Mining in Moesia Superior. In : G. Alföldy, ed., Kaiser, Heer und Gesellschaft in der Römischen Kaiserzeit. Gedenkschrift für Eric Birley, Stuttgart, pp. 343-363.
Dušanić, S. (2004). Roman Mining in Illyricum—Historical Aspects. In : G. Urso, ed., Dall’Adriatico al Danubio. L’Illirico nell’età Greca e Romana. Atti del convegno internazionale, Cividale del Friuli, 25-27 settembre 2003, Convegni della Fondazione Niccolò Canussio 3, Pise, pp. 247-270.
Dušanić, S. (2016). Aspects of Roman Mining in Noricum, Pannonia, Dalmatia and Moesia Superior. In : H. Temporini, ed., Politische Geschichte (Provinzen und Randvölker : Latinischer Donau-Balkanraum), Band 6, Berlin/Boston, pp. 52-94.
Evans, J.A. (1885). Antiquarian Researches in Illyricum, Part. III-IV, Archaeologia 49. Westminister.
Ferchiou, N., and Gabillon, A. (1985). Une inscription grecque de Bou Arada ou les quatre plaies de l’agriculture antique en Proconsulaire. In : Histoire et Archéologie de l’Afrique du Nord, Actes du 2e colloque international, Grenoble, 1974, BCTH, n.s. 19, B, Paris, pp. 109-124.
Fidanovski, S. (1998). Rimski i Ranovizantinski period. Arheološko Blago, pp. 260-349.
Filow, B. (1963). Die Legionen der Provinz Moesia von Augustus bis auf Diokletian. Wiesbaden. [1re éd. 1906].
France, J., et Nelis-Clément, J., eds, (2014). La statio. Archéologie d’un lieu de pouvoir dans l’empire romain. Bordeaux.
Gavrilović, N. (2018). Roman Religion and Cults on the Danube limes in Serbia. In : S. Golubović and N. Mrđić, eds., Vivere militare est. From Populus to Emperors—Living on the Frontier, Belgrade, pp. 167-195.
Georgiev, V. (1975). Die thrakischen Götternamen, ein Beitrag zur Religion der alten Thraker. Balkansko ezikoznanie / Linguistique Balkanique 18, pp. 5-56.
Grbić, D. (2013). The Thracian Hero on the Danube. New Interpretation of an Inscription from Diana. Balcanica 44, pp. 7-20.
Hajdari, A. (2013). Ulpiana et la romanisation de la Dardanie, Dissertation, Université de Grenoble.
Hatlas, J. (1988). Les légats de la legio IV Flavia, dans Eos. Commentarii Societatis Philologae Polonorum 76, pp. 87-98.
Hirt, A.M. (2010). Imperial Mines and Quarries in the Roman World. Organizational Aspects 27 BC-AD 235. Oxford.
Kalaja-Hajdari, E. (2017). Shndërrimet në Dardani gjatë periudhës Romake (Proceset ekonomike, social-politike dhe kulturore). Prishtina.
Kazarov, G. (1933). Myndry[tus ?], RE 16, p. 1079.
Lambert, J.N., (1954). Cultes septénaires en Afrique du Nord, Actes du 79e Congrès des Sociétés Savantes, Alger, pp. 207-236.
Le Bohec, Y. (1989). La Troisième Légion Auguste, Paris.
Le Bohec, Y., et Wolff, C. (2000). Legiones Moesiae Superioris. In : Y. Le Bohec et C. Wolff, eds., Les Légions de Rome sous le Haut-Empire, Lyon, pp. 239-245.
Mahjoubi, A. (1961). La région de Béja dans l’Antiquité, Thèse de 3e cycle, Université de Paris-Sorbonne.
Maurin, L., et Peyras, J. (1971). Uzalitana, la région de l’Ansarine dans l’Antiquité. CT 19, pp. 65-66.
M’Charek, A., (1992). Inscriptions découvertes entre Zama Regia et (Ma)rag(ui) Sara. L’Africa Romana 9, pp. 251-264.
Merlin, A. (1947). Divinités indigènes sur un bas-relief romain de la Tunisie. CRAI séance du 6 juin, pp. 355-371.
Mirković, M., et Dušanić, S. (1976). Inscriptions de la Mésie Supérieure, Vol. 1 : Singidunum et le nord-ouest de la province. Belgrade.
Mirković, M. (1973). Legija IV Flavia i vojni fogor u Viminacijumu, Arheoloski vestnik / Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU. Institut za arheologijo 24, pp. 906-908.
Mirdita, Z. (1981). Antroponomija e Dardanisë në Kohën Romake. Prishtina.
Móscy, A. (1968). Latrones Dardaniae. AAntHung 16, pp. 351-354.
Móscy, A. (1970). Gesellschaft und Romanisation in der römischen Provinz Moesia Superior. Budapest/Amsterdam.
Nelis-Clément, J., (2000). Les beneficiarii militaires et administrateurs au service de l’empire (Ier s. a.C.-VIe s. p.C.). Bordeaux.
Nemeti, S., et Dana, D. (2017). Malva, la colonie perdue de Dacie inférieure. Acta Musei Napocensis 54, pp. 207-230.
Papazoglu, F. (1979). Inscriptions de la Mésie Supérieure, Vol. 4. Belgrade (= IMS IV).
Petrović, V.P. (2006). Pre-Roman and Roman Dardania. Historical and Geographical Considerations. Balcanica 37, pp. 7-25.
Petrović, V.P. (2008). The Roman Road Naissus-Lissus. The Shortest Connection between Rome and the Danubian Limes. Archaeologia Bulgarica 12, pp. 31-40.
Petrović, V.P. (2019). Les voies et agglomérations romaines au cœur des Balkans. Le cas de la Serbie. Bordeaux.
Popović, I. (2008). Dea Dardanica iz Medijane I srodni spomenici iz Balkanskih provincija carstva. Nis i Vizantijaz 6, pp. 31-41.
RIC 2 = Mattingly, H. Sydenham, H.E. (1926). Roman Imperial Coinage, 2, Vespasian to Hadrian. Londres.
Samardžć, G.M. (2018). On the Beneficiary Inscriptions in the South of the Province of Moesia Superior (The Examples from Kosovo and Metohija). Collections of Papers of the Faculty of Philosophy 48, pp. 237-248.
Šašel, A., et Šašel, J. (1986). Inscriptiones Latinae quae in Iugoslavia inter annos MCMII et MCMXL repertae et editae sunt. Situla, 25. Ljubljana (= ILJug.).
Shukriu, E. (2001). Dea Dardane dhe monumentet e tjera epigrafike nga Smira. Buletini i Fakultetit Filozofik 26, pp. 17-37.
Shukriu, E. (2014). Hyjnesha Dardane. Dea Dardanicae. Prishtina.
Simić, V.M., et Vasić, M.R. (1977). La monnaie des mines romaines de l’Illyrie. RN 19, pp. 48-61.
Solin, H. (1994). Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae. In : Epigrafia. Actes du Colloque international en mémoire de Attilio Degrassi, Rome, pp. 375-377.
Speidel, M.P. (1992a). Roman Army Studies, II. Stuttgart.
Speidel, M.P. (1992b). Centurions Promoted from Beneficiarii. ZPE 91, pp. 229-232.
Speidel, M.P. (1994). Die Denkmäler der Kaiserreiter. Equites singulares Augusti. Köln/Bonn.
Tudor, D., et Vladescu, C. (1972). Dardanii la Romula-Malva. Apulum 10, pp. 183-190.
Tudor, D. (1973). Recentele săpături archeologice-romane de pe valea Oltulin Inferior. Apulum 11, pp. 115-126.
Vermanić-Kuzmanić, A. (1963). Die Denkmäler des thrakischen Heros in Jugoslavien. Archaeologia Iugoslavica / Arheološko Društvo Jugoslavije 4, pp. 31-57.
Vulić, N. (1925). Latrones Dalmatiae athua Dardaniae. Glas Srpska Kraljevska Akademija 14, pp. 91-94.
Vulić, N. (1931). Antički spomenici našezemlje. Belgrade.
All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
---|---|---|---|
Abstract Views | 443 | 161 | 36 |
Full Text Views | 91 | 5 | 3 |
PDF Views & Downloads | 107 | 15 | 7 |
Tributes to the enigmatic dea Dard(…) show a typically Roman political and religious intention to show respect for a local deity, within the framework of the control of isolated but strategic areas in the heart of the Illyrian region and the province of Moesia Superior. These acts of piety reflect the desire on the part of the Roman authorities to carry out diplomatic action with the local population, particularly in the vicinity of the stationes, often away from the legions and officia of which they were a detachment. In any case, these dedications cannot be considered irrefutable proof of the resistance of a Dardanian identity to the Roman order. They do, of course, suggest that the cult of these local and enigmatic deities had survived in the heart of the province of Moesia Superior. The paradox lies in the fact that we know more about the existence of these local deities thanks to the tributes of Roman soldiers, even if their names remain unknown.
All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
---|---|---|---|
Abstract Views | 443 | 161 | 36 |
Full Text Views | 91 | 5 | 3 |
PDF Views & Downloads | 107 | 15 | 7 |