Poetovio : sarcophagi and ash chests

Djurić, Bojan (author)

The sarcophagi and ash chests of Poetovio are a distinct and characteristic form of sepulchral monuments in this Roman town. They form part of an extensive stone production that mainly exploited the marble deposits in the Pohorje Mountains (Slovenia), to a lesser extent marble from Gummern (Austria). Miocene limestone was also used, albeit rarely, the origin of which has as yet not been positively identified. The vast majority of the known stone products have survived in the modern-day city of Ptuj and its surroundings, and have been the subject of epigraphic studies and collection interests since the early 16$^{th}$ century.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Roman sculpture, relief sculpture, graves, archaeology, stone monuments, ash chests, iconography, Poetovio monuments, Poetovio sarcophagi, Poetovio ash chests, sarcophagi, Roman empire, corpus of sculptures
• Typology: 2.01 - Scientific Monograph
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana, Ptuj
• Publisher: University of Ljubljana Press, Ptuj – Ormož Regional Museum, Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: 131 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-180799
• ISBN: 978-961-297-637-8
• UDC: 726.829(497.4Ptuj)(0.034.2)
• DOI: 10.4312/9789612976378
• COBISS.SI-ID: 246670339
• Publication date in RUL: 27.03.2026

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• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Poetovio : sarkofagi in pepelnice

Abstract

Poetovionski sarkofagi in pepelnice, ki so posebna in značilna oblika poetovionskih nagrobnih spomenikov, so del obsežne rimskodobne proizvodnje kamnitih izdelkov, ki je zanje izkoriščala predvsem ležišča marmorja na Pohorju, v manjšem obsegu tudi marmor iz Gummerna (Avstrija). Za manjši del izdelkov je bil uporabljen tudi miocenski apnenec, pri čemer nedvoumno določenih virov zanj še ne poznamo. Velika večina kamnitih izdelkov se je ohranila predvsem v mestu Ptuj in njegovi okolici ter že od zgodnjega 16. stoletja postala predmet epigrafskega obravnavanja in zbiranja.

• Keywords: rimsko kiparstvo, reliefno kiparstvo, nagrobni spomeniki, arheologija, kamniti spomeniki, pepelnice, ikonografija, poetovionski nagrobni spomeniki, poetovionski sarkofagi, sarkofagi, Ptuj, Rimski imperij, korpus skulptur