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ena lazar ■ pogled skozi steklo • a look through the glass 110 Figure 47: A selection of large cylindrical bottles from Budva necropolis. Museums and Galleries of Budva,
Montenegro (photo: Irena Lazar).

Slika 47: Izbor večjih cilindričnih steklenic iz budvanske nekropole. Muzeji in galerije Budve, Črna gora
(foto: Irena Lazar).

grooves and shallow incisions and appears on in the town who brought with them the Italic
various forms of bottles, jugs etc.; it can be com- habits, together with their taste for more luxury
pared to the products of the 1st and 2nd centuries and imported goods they used in their everyday
(Stern 2001, 37–9). life and later added in graves as grave goods for
the deceased. In both above-mentioned types of
The forms of the individual graves and grave graves, the glass items are very often used as ash
plots further show a distinct Italic influence containers and always as part of the grave goods
with the use of Roman customs or more pre- if not only as such.
cisely a significant level of Romanisation in the
town already from the beginning of the 1st centu- Another important sign of the early Ro-
ry. Regarding and observing the grave types and man presence and the appearance of the Italic
forms, the graves in a simple grave pit contain no and Roman military population are graves with
glass items. It may be assumed that these simple Aucissa fibulae. They appear in graves with a dol-
graves with only a few grave goods like ceramic lium or stone urns, in graves nos. 106, 107, 133,
bowls and plates of local production (gr. nos. 8, 134, 153, 207, etc. The fibulae are made of bronze,
11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 24, 31 etc.) represent the average with the exception of gr. no. 134 with a silver one
inhabitants of the town as well as the indigenous and none of them bear any inscription (type Feu-
population. The two most numerous types of gère 22b2 and Riha 5.2.1.) (Riha 1979, 114). They
burials, with a dollium (gr. nos. 14, 47, 56, 61, 62, can be accompanied by glass goods (mould-
89 etc.) and a stone urn (gr. nos. 66, 106, 112, 164, blown flasks, balsamaria) and ceramics, accord-
165, 179, some graves in plots V, XVII etc.) reflect ing to the comparisons the grave assemblages
the Italic influence in a town and the presence of can be dated to the Flavian period, with some
Italic incomers. A large number of these graves exceptions even at the end of the century.
prove the early settling of the Italic population
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