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- 2018
Inscriptiones Spalatenses ineditae 3: three spolia from Diocletian’s PalaceKeywords: Split, epigraphy, Diocletian’s Palace, spolia, Roman inscriptions Abstract: Sa?etak This paper presents three thus far unpublished epigraphic monuments used as spolia. All three were registered in the narrower urban core of Split, i.e., in the area of Diocletian’s Palace.1 Two are on the fa?ades of buildings, and one is built into a courtyard wall. All of these fragments were originally parts of grave monuments: a funerary altar, a stele or titulus, and a sarcophagus or stele. The origin of these spolia cannot be established with any certainty, since they were all built into structures that considerably post-date Diocletian’s Palace. It is assumed that the two fragments built into fa?ades had not been published until now because they had previously been covered with stucco which had been removed in the meantime. These two monuments may be dated to the 1st to 3rd centuries, i.e., prior to Diocletian’s Palace, while the remaining fragment may have possibly belonged to a later period. The texts of the inscriptions reveal several names that are rather rare in the inscriptions of Dalmatia
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