TWO ROMAN FUNERARY MEDALLIONS FROM NORTH CROATIA IN THE CONTEXT OF NORICOPANNONIAN STONE CARVING PRODUCTION

The funerary medallion is a kind of Roman gravestone that was widespread in Noricum, and somewhat less so in Pannonia. So far only two examples are known from Croatia, one from the village of Majur to the west of Bjelovar, and the other one from the village of Biškupci southeast of Daruvar, both unfortunately chance finds without a precise archaeological context. The first part of the paper addresses a general spatial-chronological and cultural context for such finds. The second part discusses the only two such monuments from north Croatia, which were first published in 2018 within a wider evidence of Roman funerary monuments from north-western Croatia. In this paper these two medallions are juxtaposed and discussed in minute detail in their archaeological and cultural-historical context within Norico-Pannonian funerary art. The example from Biškupci is dated to the early 3rd century, and the one from Majur to the mid or later 3rd century.