The inscribed Roman barrel from Cimpermanova ulica in Ljubljana

Abstract

For the first time, the article presents the discovery from the end of 2019, when archaeologists conducting rescue excavations at Cimpermanova ulica at Prule in Ljubljana stumbled upon a Roman well for which a wooden barrel was used that can be approximately dated to the end of the 1st century BC or to the first decades of the 1st century AD. In recent years in Ljubljana and its vicinity, such finds are relatively frequent and are thus stated here by the authors. More attention is devoted to one of the 27 preserved staves from the barrel from Cimpermanova ulica, on which a short inscription is preserved, with the help of which the barrel can be connected to the early Roman military presence in the territory of Emona. Through dating, the geographic context of the find in Prule, and finally, with the inscription, the discovered Roman well can be connected to a smaller military unit (century) which operated in this area for a relatively short time.