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The paper covers 26 small Roman seal boxes, of which four have been preserved in their entirety and the rest only partially. They were used to protect the wax seals that secured sent packages, such that with the help of wax the box was affixed to the knot (bond) of the string with which the package was tied. The seal was protected in this way. Any damage to it, whether intentional or not, diminished the inviolability of the package. All of the items analysed in this work are held in the Archaeological Museum in Split. Most of them were obtained by the Museum through purchases, so no precise data on the discovery circumstances have been preserved. Only data on the find sites and the year and method of procurement are known. Only three of the boxes analysed in this paper were found in archaeological excavations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author presents new data on the finds of Greek and Greco-Illyrian coins that came from several archaeological sites in Herzegovina. These data encompass 48 examples of coins that were minted during the period from the 4th to 1st centuries BC. Most of them were discovered as chance surface finds, while a smaller portion was yielded during archaeological excavations. Coins from the Greco-Illyrian cities of Apollonia and Dyrrhachium in present-day Albania predominate, followed by issues of the Illyrian King Ballaios, as well as examples of coins from Corinth, Pharos, Issa and other Greek cities. In addition to new data tied to numismatic topography, this paper also provides new insights into the oldest circulation of coins in the former territory of northwestern Illyria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During rescue archaeological excavations conducted in Solin in 1986-1987 on the expansion of a section on the Trogir-Split road (the so-called Solin bypass), among the finds 561 graves were discovered and examined. In this paper, I shall describe the method employed to clean the coins from grave 207, a skeletal burial without architecture in sector III (Hortus). The grave contained a ceramic oil lamp (its stamp reading VIBIANI), approximately 30 poorly preserved iron nails and 20 Roman provincial coins. The coins were cleaned and, with the help of an XRF device, a metal analysis was conducted and the results thereof are also presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Movable archaeological finds bearing inscriptions from the area of the Roman legionary fortress at Tilurium (today the village of Gardun near Trilj) are presented in this paper. The scholarly analysis encompassed the so-called instrumenta inscripta, i.e., the ceramic, glass, bone and metallic finds which have an inscription and/or stamp on them. These are finds yielded by systematic archaeological excavations, as well as finds today stored in the Trilj Regional Museum in Trilj, the Cetina Territorial Museum in Sinj, the Franciscan Monastery Archaeological Collection in Sinj, the Archaeological Museum in Split or finds recorded in the older scholarly literature. Most of the finds date to the period from the first half of the 1st century AD, while individual finds can be dated to the very end of the 1st century BC. Their dating thereby largely overlaps with the dating of Tilurium as a Roman legionary fortress and then a fort used by auxiliary contingents. A small number of finds can be dated to the period prior to the time when Tilurium became the fortress of Legio VII at the beginning of the 1st century AD. By the same token, a small number of finds testifies to the continuity of life in Tilurium once it ceased being a Roman military base after the mid-3rd century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]