Nadin (Nedinum): spatial concept of the Liburnian necropolis

Sa？etak Systematic archaeological excavations at the large necropolis at the foot of Nedinum, the Liburnian- Roman settlement at Gradina in today’s Nadin, near Zadar, have yielded new data important in terms of quality for the analysis of the spatiality of the Liburnian necropolis. Part of the planned Roman “roadside” necropolis and part of the older Liburnian “flat” necropolis have been unearthed. Since the Roman necropolis was set up above the Liburnian one, their spatial (cultural) interaction can be observed. The procedure of Liburnian articulation of space around graves has been documented, and for the first time the complexity of the contact and demarcation between grave plots and massive volumes (enclosure walls) has been ascertained among the Liburnians. From the very beginning, during the 7th century BC, and onward, the space of the Liburnian necropolis was rooted in the “grid” structure of rectangular grave plots and it aspired to regularity and order in the whole and parts thereof (graves, sets of graves). This paper compendiously covers the spatial changes in both necropolises, but primarily the Liburnian one