DOI Artikel:
Dyczek, Piotr: Hypnos from Risinium (Montenegro)
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41951#0053
Piotr Dyczek
Warszawa
HYPNOS FROM RISINIUM (MONTENEGRO)
Abstract: In 2001, the Warsaw University Center for Archaeological Research initiated
research on a new site in Montenegro, situated in the modem town of Risan on the Boka
Kotorska bay Risan is known primarily for a military episode - the confiict between the
Illyrian ąueen Teuta and Romę in the course of two wars, in 229 and 228 BC. D. Vuksan
organized excavations in 1930, in the center of the town. Five big rooms were discovered
then, but the work was never completed. Four of these rooms contained mosaic floors.The
edifice covered ca 1000 m2, of which some 790 m2 survives. Fourteen rooms of various
sizes ran around a peristyle, adjoined by one long hall on the east side (27.90 by 5.30 m).
It is presently believed that the complex as a whole was erected most likely in the reigns
of Antoninus Pius-Marcus Aurelius. The finest of the mosaic floors was found in room 5
and it is this floor or rather the theme represented on this floor that has prompted the
present remarks. The mosaic covers an area 5.60 by 4.45 m. The center of the
composition is fiłled with a medallion framed by a white meander on black ground.
Represented inside the medallion is a lying Hypnos depicted as a youth with slightly
spread wings.
Key words: Rhizon/Risinium, roman mosaics, Hypnos.
In 2001, the Warsaw University Center for Archaeological Research initiated
research on a new site in Montenegro, situated in the modern town of Risan on
the Boka Kotorska bay [Dyczek 2005, in print] (fig. 1). The site lies in a natural
cavea surrounded on three sides by limestone ridges reaching over 900 m a.s.l.
A short river, the Spiła, flows from a vast cavern at the foot of one of the
mountains and cuts across the plateau to empty into the northern branch of the
Boka Kotorska, which is called Risan Bay. Rising above this plateau is a hill 132
m a.s.l., topped with the ruins of a fortress, the beginnings of which go back to the
Illyrian period.
Different variants of the town’s name appear in the ancient written sources
depenwing on the datę: Rhizon, Rhizinium, Risinium [cf CIL VIII 2581; Mayer
1957, 286; Krahe 1925, 2], It is mentioned in the work of Pseudo-Skylax from the
Warszawa
HYPNOS FROM RISINIUM (MONTENEGRO)
Abstract: In 2001, the Warsaw University Center for Archaeological Research initiated
research on a new site in Montenegro, situated in the modem town of Risan on the Boka
Kotorska bay Risan is known primarily for a military episode - the confiict between the
Illyrian ąueen Teuta and Romę in the course of two wars, in 229 and 228 BC. D. Vuksan
organized excavations in 1930, in the center of the town. Five big rooms were discovered
then, but the work was never completed. Four of these rooms contained mosaic floors.The
edifice covered ca 1000 m2, of which some 790 m2 survives. Fourteen rooms of various
sizes ran around a peristyle, adjoined by one long hall on the east side (27.90 by 5.30 m).
It is presently believed that the complex as a whole was erected most likely in the reigns
of Antoninus Pius-Marcus Aurelius. The finest of the mosaic floors was found in room 5
and it is this floor or rather the theme represented on this floor that has prompted the
present remarks. The mosaic covers an area 5.60 by 4.45 m. The center of the
composition is fiłled with a medallion framed by a white meander on black ground.
Represented inside the medallion is a lying Hypnos depicted as a youth with slightly
spread wings.
Key words: Rhizon/Risinium, roman mosaics, Hypnos.
In 2001, the Warsaw University Center for Archaeological Research initiated
research on a new site in Montenegro, situated in the modern town of Risan on
the Boka Kotorska bay [Dyczek 2005, in print] (fig. 1). The site lies in a natural
cavea surrounded on three sides by limestone ridges reaching over 900 m a.s.l.
A short river, the Spiła, flows from a vast cavern at the foot of one of the
mountains and cuts across the plateau to empty into the northern branch of the
Boka Kotorska, which is called Risan Bay. Rising above this plateau is a hill 132
m a.s.l., topped with the ruins of a fortress, the beginnings of which go back to the
Illyrian period.
Different variants of the town’s name appear in the ancient written sources
depenwing on the datę: Rhizon, Rhizinium, Risinium [cf CIL VIII 2581; Mayer
1957, 286; Krahe 1925, 2], It is mentioned in the work of Pseudo-Skylax from the