Figural Stone Decoration from Horreum Margi (Ćuprija)

Abstract

Archaeological exploration of the Roman town of Horreum Margi began in 1861, when Felix Kanitz saw and made sketches of the Roman fort of Ćuprija, at the mouth of the river Ravanica into Morava1. (Map) In his work Краљевина Србија from 1904, he enthusiastically repeats the description of the multi-layer Ćuprija fort2. For decades after Kanitz’s description of the Roman fort in Ćuprija, according to historical sources identified as Horreum Margi3, there was no interest in this archaeological site. One of the reasons is surely its position in the very centre of the modern settlement of Ćuprija, under the modern military base and arsenal, and later military equestrian school. Horreum Margi is only mentioned as a finding place of different epigraphic monuments in the papers written by М. Valtrović, N. Vulić and others.