Contributions of dr. Danica Pinterović to Roman provincial archaeology in Croatia

Dr. Danica Pinterović spent the fi rst several years in the Museum of Slavonia working mostly on organizing the library materials, and since she started working, she conducted fieldwork and rescue excavations in Osijek and its surroundings. From her Work Diaries, in which she recorded the museum events from January 1, 1947 to June 1, 1974, it can be concluded that almost daily, the Museum got news about archaeological finds in earthworks in different building sites in the city (in the area of Ljevaonica, Ciglana, steam-powered mill “Croatia”), house building sites in Donji grad or from the infrastructure network works. All those meticulously collected field data proved helpful to dr. Pinterović in writing numerous popular, professional, and scientific papers in the years that followed. We have divided her works into eight groups: 1. Works and reports related to field research in the area of Roman Mursa; 2. Works related to the processing of archaeological finds from the area of Roman Mursa; 3. Works and reports related to field research, finds, and the historical development of the Osijek area and other parts of Slavonia; 4. Works related to limes in Croatia; 5. Reflections on Mursa/Mursa in a wider context; 6. Monographs; 7. Reviews, depictions and encyclopedia entries; 8. Archaeological reports in daily newspapers. In our review of dr. Pinterović’s scientifi c production in the field of archaeology, we discovered two areas of interest. The first one, that is also predominant, is related to the research of Roman Mursa, while the second one is limes. But, her contribution to Roman provincial archaeology does not stop at rich professional and scientific production of papers. Dr. Pinterović participated in several archaeological excavations in Našice, Batina, Beli Manastir and in numerous rescue archaeological excavations in Osijek. She was also the first archaeologist who initiated systematic research of the Croatian section of limes (Batina, 1970). As such she was fully dedicated to organising archaeological finds from Mursa kept at the Museum of Slavonia, surveying and reviewing resources and the corresponding scientific literature. She summed up the many years of work related to the archeological heritage of Mursa in her magnum opus, the monograph Mursa i njeno područje u antičko doba (Mursa and Its Surroundings in the Time of Antiquity), which is at the same time the crown of her long and prolific career. The best proof of the value of the monograph is its amended and expanded, now trilingual, edition published by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2014. This monograph remains, from its first publication to the present day, an indispensable piece of literature at Croatian universities