Term house urns is used to describe closed vessels, whose covers resemble conical roofs, while openings are reminiscent of doors and windows. They are a characteristic of the Roman imperial time, between 1st and 3rd cent. AD, when they were used for cremation burials in the Lower and White Carniola, as well as northwestern Croatian area, with several examples found in Ljubljana. Due to the limited spatial context they are connected with Latobici, a Celtic tribe who lived in the area before the arrival of Romans. Although they are often interpreted as a manifestation of cultural identity, their distribution and symbolic imagery signify wider social-religious contexts. In the thesis we present an overview of all sites, on which house urns were found, as well as a catalogue of examples discovered to date. Afterwards we have updated the material classification and typologically analyzed three case studies. Considering the religious symbolism of the ornaments, we have concluded with the interpretation of house urns as an expression of merging of different social groups.
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