Appian’s Illyrian book ( Illyrike ) was originally intended to be just an appendix to his Macedonian book and today remains the only extant ancient work dealing with the early history of Illyricum which is preserved in its entirety. In this short work Appian puts together different local and regional histories in order to create a unified historical narrative and determines the historical and mythological coordinates of Illyricum inside the ancient world. This paper will discuss Illyrike in the context of the Roman construction of Illyricum as a provincial space, similar to some other regions in continental Europe such as, for example, Gaul or Britain. They were all firstly created through the needs of Roman political geography and later written into literary knowledge through the works of ancient history and ethnography. This paper will argue that Appian’s Illyrik e represented the final stage of the Roman construction of Illyricum from an imaginary to a provincial space, which was the point of its full coming of age as an integral part of the ancient world and the Roman Empire.

This paper details the results of the first season of archaeological excavations at Bribirska glavica, carried out as part of the international archaeological project Varvaria/Breberium/Bribir, launched in 2014. The field operations took several directions: reexcavation of the multiapsed building situated in the local cemetery (partly cleared in the 1960s); analysis of the walls of the mausoleum with two sarcophagi in situ, located next to the multiapsed building; analysis of the walls of the early modern Orthodox church of Sts Joachim and Ann; geophysical survey of the unexcavated areas of Glavica; verification of the topographical map of the site; 3D reconstructions of major monuments of the site; establishment of archaeological databases; and processing of available archival documents about earlier excavations.

Developpee probablement comme une generalisation ethnographique sur des etrangers associes a une ou des langues indigenes similaires, l’etiquette “Illyriens” a ete utilisee dans differents contextes. Elle fait son apparition, de toute evidence, au VIe siecle av. J.-C., mais nos sources remontent a un siecle plus tard. Les perceptions ulterieures de cet ethnonyme dependent de contextes politiques et territoriaux, d’abord de l’alliance politique avec le royaume illyrien a l’epoque hellenistique, ensuite de l’usage qu’en firent les Romains dans le contexte de l’expansion imperiale de la premiere heure.