The forgery of a Roman inscription from the Archaeological Museum Zadar

Unutar Zbirke antičkih epigrafskih spomenika Arheološkoga muzeja Zadar nalazi se brojna građa pronađena na širem području legijskog logora u Burnumu. Uvod rada tematizira burnumsku nadgrobnu stelu, objavljenu još u trećem svesku CIL-a, koju je fra Lujo Marun otkupio od lokalnih stanovnika 1903. godine. Sudeći prema sadržaju natpisa i paleografskim karakteristikama slova, stela se može i relativno precizno datirati, no ono što je indikativno jest činjenica da se u Arheološkom muzeju Zadar čuva i jedna malena kamena ploča koja sadrži identičan tekst kao i navedena stela. Budući da ploča sadrži čitav niz epigrafskih, ali i klesarskih nelogičnosti, pokušava se dokazati da je riječ o krivotvorini.The Collection of Roman inscriptions of the Archaeological Museum Zadar contains a large number of monuments found on the wider territory of the Roman legionary fortress in Burnum. In its introduction, the paper discusses a funerary stele from Burnum, included already in the third volume of CIL, which was purchased from the local residents by Croatian Franciscan Lujo Marun in 1903. The content and the lettering of the inscription allows a relatively accurate dating. Symptomatically, however, the Museum’s collection includes a small stone slab with the identical text as on the above mentioned stele. Since the epigraphic and tectonic elements of the slab lack logic in many aspects, the paper is trying to prove it is a forgery