Kristina DŽIN / Aleksandra PAIC
(Archeological Museum of Istria, Pula, Croatia)
The poster introduces the architectonic (rooms, corridors, cistern) and construction elements (tegulae with production stamps, suspensurae, inlet and outlet pipes, canals) of the villa rustica on Stancija Peliceti. The numerous finds that emerged during archeological research serve as temporal indicator for the complex itself (glass, bronze, iron, fine and industrial kitchen pottery, amphorae, dolia and oil lamps).
This previously unknown site was unearthed during the construction of one of the vital highways on the Istrian peninsula, at which point an archeological protective research was initiated.
Primary analysis of the building complex found at this location sets the site’s main economic function in line with the numerous industrial centers of the prosperous, olive-rich Istrian region, along the main Roman transportation route Pola – Nesactium – Albona – Tarsatica.
Keywords: villa rustica, oleariae, water reservoir