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Javne i privatne igre u antičkoj Sisciji

In this paper, the authors analyze and make a description of the default games in ancient Siscia. The paper is divided into two main chapters which deals with public and private games based on the available materials and the materials residual and written sources. The first part covers the public games, which, according to the authors happened in a possible wooden amphitheater and the bed of the river Kupa, which could be used for running naumachia. Although so far have not found the remains of these architectural complexes, material evidences are pointing directly to their existence. The thesis of the progress of public games in a wooden amphitheater authors confirm with sources and similar examples from other provinces and colonies of the Roman Empire. In the second part authors are dealing with private segment of games for which there are direct evidence, such as tesserae and dice. There is no doubt that they have held, as in the time allowed, i.e. during the Saturnalia, which at a time when gambling, and similar games that were used for this type of leisure, were banned.

Siscija; Kupa; drveni amfiteatar; javne igre; tesere; kocka; privatne igre

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