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Funerary Architecture in the Liburnian Culture: Construction – form - function/symbolics

Architecture of a necropolis is analyzed as well as related category of spatiality in the Liburnian cult of the dead. Speciically construction, form and function (symbolics: social, religious) of a grave aselementary architectural funerary form are analyzed as well as spatiality of a Liburnian necropolis. Spatiality, relation between outer and inner funerary area is particularly complex issue regarding mounds with one or several burials. Alongside Liburnian mounds, problems of flat cemeteries as the other basic Liburnian architectural funerary structure are analyzed as well. Relevant problems are explained on the basis of existing Liburnian archaeological repertory as well as with consideration of new excavations of the Liburnian cemeteries, particularly the one excavated in Nadin (Liburnian Nedinum) near Zadar. Problems are interpreted in the entirety of the Liburnian culture during the 1st millennium BC, but also comparatively in the corresponding Adriatic cultural context, particularly in the last centuries of the 1st millennium BC, during architectural systematization of the necropolis, in historical framework of Hellenization (urbanization) to a certain degree and inally systematic Romanization of the eastern Adriatic circle.

Nadin, Liburnia, funerary architecture, Iron Age

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