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Herojska doba Histrov

Obhod po deželi Tour of the

Histrov Land of the Histri

Ime Istre je le eden, a najpomembnejši podedovani ele- Istria’s name is but one – albeit the most significant –
ment monumentalne železnodobne dediščine, ki med inherited element of its Iron Age heritage, and stands as
drugim odraža identiteto tega prostora. Delček te daljne an expression of its identity. A small part of this distant
preteklosti je predstavljen tudi na tej razstavi, ki je »našla« history is showcased at this exhibition, which has opened
še en čaroben način za obhod po deželi Histrov in njihovi to us yet another magical route through which to tour the
junaški preteklosti. Simbolični naslov Herojska doba Histrov land of the Histri and their heroic past. This exhibition,
with the symbolic title The Heroic Age of the Histri, picks
je nadaljevanje impresivne razstave Histri v Istri, ki jo je up on Kristina Mihovilić’s work in creating the remarka-
leta 2013 v Pulju postavila Kristina Mihovilić in s katero ble The Histri in Istria exhibition, staged in Pula in 2013,
je bil poudarjen neizbrisen pečat tisočletnega bivanja which aimed to underscore the indelible legacy of the
Histrov v tem prostoru (Mihovilić 2014). Kot nekakšen millennial Histrian presence in Istria (Mihovilić 2014).
kontinuum razstava odraža pomen predstavljanja histrske Continuing on this work, this exhibition addresses the
kulture zunaj meja Istre in Hrvaške ter tako spodbuja in importance of presenting the Histrian culture outside of
širi poznavanje tisočletne istrske dediščine. Istria and Croatia as a whole, nurturing and promoting
our understanding of the millennial Histrian heritage.
Razstava in s tem tudi to delo v manjšem, a usmerjenem The exhibition, and this publication, thus encapsulates in
obsegu predstavljata trenutna spoznanja o Histrih, o njihovi smaller but more focused scope our current knowledge
kulturi življenja skozi obrede in načine pokopa ter skozi re- of the Histri and their culture, through rituals and burial
prezentativne predmete bogate materialne kulture. Čeprav methods, as reflected in representative artefacts of their
je bilo do danes objavljenih veliko študij o oblikovanju in rich material culture. Although many papers have been
razvoju histrske kulture ter izvedene številne raziskave, published on the subject, and many archaeological in-
predvsem grobišč, veliko manj pa naselij, nam ta kultura v vestigation campaigns have been performed – primarily
marsičem ostaja terra incognita. Generacije raziskovalcev of necropolises, much less often of the settlements –
so v zadnjih 150 letih zavzeto poskušale sestaviti delček the formation and development of the Histrian culture
za delčkom te skrivnostne istrske preteklosti. Ti fragmenti, remains largely terra incognita. Over the past 150 years
najbolje ohranjeni v grobovih in predmetih, omogočajo numerous researchers have made an earnest effort to
dosledno sledenje trajnosti bivanja in razvoja v istrskem uncover, piece by piece, Istria’s hidden past. With these
prostoru skozi celotno 1. tisočletje pr. n. št. fragments, best reflected in the graves and in the pre-
served artefacts, we are able to trace a continuity of
habitation and development in Istria across the whole
Nosilci te železnodobne kulture so nato že v 6. stoletju of the 1 millennium BCE.
st
pr. n. št. posredno stopili na zgodovinski oder, in sicer po
zaslugi grških piscev in njihove epske tradicije potovanj ter The people of this Iron Age culture emerged on the his-
novih spoznanj. Najzgodnejša omemba imena Ίστρια se torical scene in the 6 century BCE, indirectly, i.e., by way
th
pojavi v delu »Svetovni potopis« prvega grškega geografa of Greek writers and their epic tradition on the subject of
in zgodovinarja Hekataja iz Mileta, s čimer je ljudstvo tudi travels and novel discoveries. We find the earliest record
formalno poistoveteno s Histri (Križman 1979, 25–27; of the name Ίστρια in the Periēgēsis (“Tour Round the
Šašel Kos 2005, 97–99, 103–104; 2016, 42–44; Mihovilić World”) of Hecataeus of Miletus, the first Greek geog-
2014, 24). Podobno kot Japodi, Liburni in druge skupnosti rapher and historian, from whence the formal Histrian The Heroic Age of The Histri
na severovzhodnem Jadranu tudi Histri ne spadajo med identification of this people (Križman 1979, 25–27; Šašel
Ilire ali ilirske skupnosti, kar so že zgodaj jasno razlikovali Kos 2005, 97–99, 103–104; 2016, 42–44; Mihovilić 2014,

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