Abstract
Manastirine is an ancient funerary complex north of Salona and near its episcopal centre. The most prestigious martyrs of Salona (those of the persecution of Diocletian) were buried there. After the fall of Salona (about 620), however, their relics were taken to Rome on the initiative of a Dalmatian pope. There they were installed in a specially built chapel in the Lateran, which was decorated with their portraits. It was very natural for the bishops of the fourth century and of the beginning of the fifth century to be buried near the saints, not far from their cathedral, as well as a large number of distinguished or more humble Christians. The excavation is an old one. It is very well known because of the debate it aroused at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century (it contradicted local legends), because of the personality of the principal excavator, Mgr Bulic, and because of the repercussions of the publication by the Austrian archaeologist Egger, who reconstructed ...
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