Browsing by Author "Omari, Elda"
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Item The Athena Domus at Apollonia (Albania): A reassessment(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2016) Omari, Elda; Bonini, PaoloThe city of Apollonia, located to the South-west of modern Albania, was founded in 588 B.C. by Corinthian and Corcyrian people, and was later described by Cicero as an admirabilis urbs. In 44 B.C. when Augustus and Agrippa were studying rhetoric in Apollonia, they got to know of the killing of Caesar and were helped by the local people to return to Rome and take the power back. The city, located on the right bank of the river Aoos, only 12 km from the sea, was a crossroads and a filter for different cultures: Illyrians, Macedonians, the Greeks and the Romans have inhabited the territory over the centuries. The domus, dated between 2nd and 3rd century A.D., represents the connection of the “residential fashion” present at the East and West of the Adriatic Sea. The domus is known in the literature as the “Athena house” because of the statue discovered by the archaeologists inside of it, but also as the “D house” because it was unearthed in “Sector D” of the excavation. The first goal of the research is to analyse the architectural and decorative aspects of the house to understand the tastes of this site. The second goal is to understand the needs of the customer’s social and economic selfrepresentation and the skills of the craftsmen who worked there.Item The mosaics with animals theme in the Southern Adriatic Between 4th and 6th century A.D.: Decorative and ıconographic schemes in comparison(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2012) Omari, EldaThe study of the mosaics found on the south-east Adriatic coasts, between Epirus Nova and Epirus Vetus (the current Albania), highlights significant analogies between the animals’ representations depicted on these floors and those represented on the early Christian basilicas or buildings cover floors in Syria, Turkey and in some other important centers of Eastern Mediterranean and Northern Adriatic. The iconographic and the iconological analyses offer new clues to reflect on some well-known models which circulated throughout the Adriatic and the Mediterranean areas between 4th and 6th century A.D., in geometrical and figure patterns (Aquileia, Butrinto, etc.), as well as in daily-life patterns (Dyrrachium, Bylis, Costantinople, etc.). Also, there are interesting parallels between these patterns and those of the Orpheus mosaics (Ulpiana, Sicily, Sparta, Chahba, Istambul, etc.). The comparisons which will be drawn will enable us to reflect on the connections between Eastern and Western Adriatic areas with important centers in the late ancient era, which the sea does not divide, but rather brings together: such a perspective is viewed as extremely important in the study of the history of coastal countries in the Adriatic, the Mediterranean and beyond.Item The mosaics with irregular tesserae in Albania (3rd - 1st century BC)(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2014) Omari, EldaThis research is a small part of my PhD project, a comprehensive study focused on the cataloguing and the analysis of all the mosaics and floor decorations found in modern Albania. To date, 43 sites with 265 prestige pavements (tessellatum, irregular tesserae, opus sectile, caementicium etc.) have been found in Albanin territory. From five of these sites come our examples: 10 floor decorations were made with the irregular tesserae technique and are likely to date back to the period between the 3rd and the 1st century BC. The goal of this research is to carry out a critical analysis of the motive decorations of the mosaics with irregular tesserae in Albania from 3rd to 1st century BC.Item The Roman Villa of Tirana (Albania) and its mosaics(Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2018) Omari, EldaTirana, the capital city of Albania, in Antiquity did not exist as an inhabited centre, simply it was considered a rural area, the residential territory of Dyrrachium patricians, as was Ercolano for Pompeii. In 1972 in Tirana, during the construction of a building, the remains of a rustic villa built in Roman Period were brought to light accidentally, and some of the rooms were decorated with polychrome mosaics. This villa was used for more than four centuries and it has several phases of life, for this reason it was dated by the archaeologists between the end of the 1st and the 5th century AD. The principal goal of the research is the punctual analysis of the mosaics motifs and their contextualization in the Balkan and Adriatic area, to identify the owner and the craftsmen who live and work in it. The second goal is to present to the international scientific community this rustic villa, a unique case for Tirana.