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sexta-feira, 6 de fevereiro de 2015

The City Museum of Ljubljana - ESLOVENIA

Welcome to a trail tracing the 2000-year-old heritage of Emona.


Discover the ancient town’s mysteries along a circular trail of Roman Ljubljana. Visit Emona. Enter a house from the Roman period. Locate the first baptistery. Touch a Roman wall. Take a look at it through Plečnik’s eyes. Find out how the inhabitants of Emona lived, how they defended themselves, how their heating worked, where they spent time together, which roads they travelled on and where they said good-bye to their beloved ones. 

Take a trail tracing 10 sites of the town and see what it was like from the 1st to the 6th century. 

Come visit the Emonan House and the Early Christian Centre archaeological parks which, as two oases in the middle of the city, offer the most beautiful remains from Roman Emona.



Emonan House


The Emonan House archaeological park is situated at Mirje, on the edge of the present-day centre of Ljubljana. It is here that archaeological excavations uncovered a Roman residential building.
During the excavations in Emonan House park (previously Jakopič Garden) which were underway in the 1963-1964 period a residential building that once stood in the city of Emona was discovered. Today, the park presents the remains of this building dating from the late 4th and early 5th centuries. Judging by the high-quality building finishes and utilities (floors, mosaics, heating), the building was home to a wealthy and respectable Roman family.

The central dwelling place was what is termed a summer room and its floor was made up of a two-coloured geometrical mosaic; only the rich could afford mosaics at that time. On the other side, the passage led to what is termed a winter room, featuring a preserved system of hypocaust heating. From the heating place located in the neighbouring room, hot air was channelled under the floor of the winter room; apart from the floor, the walls were also heated by hot air. In order to provide for thermal conductivity, the walls were built from hollow bricks. The building was also connected to the sewage system: waste water left the building through small drains covered by stones into a larger collection sewage drain (sewer) flowing below the nearby road and leading to the Ljubljanica River.

The park was opened to the public in 1966.

Early Christian Centre


The Early Christian Centre archaeological park is situated on Erjavčeva cesta, right opposite the Cankarjev dom cultural centre. The archaeological excavations conducted here unearthed a Roman residential building. Like with the majority of Emonan houses, it was built at the beginning of the 1st century A.D. During the nearly 500 years of its existence it was rebuilt several times. The first major rebuilding was undertaken in the early 4th century. On that occasion, the floors were renovated, the hypocaust heating was arranged and three small pools were added, suggesting that the building might have been turned into private baths.
In the second half of the 4th century, one section of the house was rebuilt as an early Christian chapel. However, a major alteration occurred at the beginning of the 5th century when a rectangular baptistery with a small pool in the centre intended for baptising was built alongside the central courtyard. The baptistery floor is covered in a multi-coloured mosaic with inbuilt inscriptions bearing the names of the Emonans who had donated the funds for its assembly. There was a covered portico featuring a coloured mosaic leading to the baptistery. The mosaic had an inbuilt inscription with the name of the builder, Archdeacon Antioha. This shows there was a strong community of early Christians in Emona at that time. Its existence is also confirmed by written records which refer to Emonan bishops.



fonte: @edisonmariotti #edisonmariotti colaboração Milena Parteli http://www.mgml.si/en/city-museum-of-ljubljana-377/

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