20/10/2023
“Mona Lisa of Viminacium”, ancient Roman wall painting from 4th century AD depicting a young woman, discovered in tomb G-2624, in Viminacium, ancient town near Kostolac, eastern Serbia.
Fresco on a western wall of the tomb depicts portrait of a young woman in her twenties, dressed in luxurious, lavishly decorated dress, wearing earrings, and necklace. Her hair is bonded and covered with the net, which was worn by unmarried young women in Roman times.
Her right arm is bent and she is holding white glass bottle in it.
The tomb G-2624 two people were buried, a young woman, around 23 years old, portrayed on this fresco, and 60-year-old man. Interior walls of the tomb are lavishly decorated with frescos, depicting peacocks, servants, flowers and geometrical motifs.
Viminacium was ancient Roman town, capital of Moesia Superior province and base camp of VII Claudia Legion. With population of around 30 000 people, Viminacium was larger than famous Pompeii.
More than 14 000 graves and tombs containing more than 30 000 interesting and valuable grave goods have been found at Viminacium necropoles, which makes them the largest Roman cemetery in the world.
Excavations have also revealed remains of amphitheater, workshops, thermal baths, aqueduct, military buildings, legion headquarters, temples and basilicas and many other public and residential buildings.
Site of Viminacium covers area of 450 hectares, and so far, only 2% have been excavated.
Unfortunately, area of Viminacium lies at the foot of a massive coal-fired power station and above the coal deposits, on the way of ever-growing coal mine. It means that expansion of the power plant and constant coal mining are destroying this ancient site
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“Mona Liza Viminacijuma”, rimska freska iz 4. veka nove ere, na kojoj je prikazan portret mlade žene, otkrivena na zapadnom zidu grobnice G-2624 u Viminacijumu, drevnom gradu u blizini Kostolca, istočna Srbija.
Freska prikazuje portret mlade žene stare između 20 i 30 godina, odevene u raskošno ukrašenu haljinu, sa naušnicama u ušima i ogrlicom oko vrata. Kosa joj je podignuta i prekrivena tankom mrežom, koju su nosile neudate mlade Rimljanke.
Desna ruka joj je savijena, a u njoj drži belu staklenu bocu.
U grobnici su sahranjene dve osobe, devojka stara oko 23 godine, čiji portret je prikazan na fresci, i stariji čovek od oko 60 godina. Unutrašnjost grobnice G-2624 bogato je oslikana freskama na kojima su prikazani paunovi, sluge, cveće i geometrijski ornamenti.
Drevni Viminacijum je bio važan grad u Rimskom carstvu, sedište provincije Gornja Mezija i VII Klaudijeve legije. Sa populacijom od preko 30 000 ljudi, bio je veći od čuvene Pompeje.
Do sada je u tamošnjim nekropolama pronađeno preko 14 000 grobova i grobnica sa preko 30 000 vrednih grobnih priloga, što ih čini najvećim rimskim grobljem na svetu.
Iskopavanja su razotkrila ostatke amfiteatra, radionica, termalnih kupatila, ostatke vodovoda duge nekoliko kilometara, vojnih zgrada, sedišta rimske legije, hramova, bazilika i mnogih drugih javnih i stambenih građevina.
Lokalitet Viminacijuma pokriva površinu od 450 hektara, a do sada je istraženo samo 2%.
Nažalost, veći deo lokaliteta se nalazi na putu gradnje novih blokova termoelektrane i površinskih kopova uglja, koji nepovratno uništavaju ovaj drevni lokalitet
