Nerodime e Poshtme (archaeological site)

Roman Period sites in Kosovo

Part of a series of articles upon Archaeology of Kosovo

Coordinates: 42°21′51″N 21°05′54″E / 42.364293°N 21.09826°E / 42.364293; 21.09826

In 1988, at the village of Nerodime e Poshtme, situated west from the city of Uroševac, several archaeological trenches were investigated at this location, close to the orthodox cemetery. The trial trenches resulted with a discovery of a villa complex that most likely is constructed during the Late Antique period. The villa was built with an atrium and polychrome floor mosaic, with geometrical and figural motives. According to the researches, the first phase is most probably constructed during the 4th century AD, and rebuilding/reconstruction were presumably conducted during the 5th and 6th century AD. The discovered floor mosaic was set within a rectangular room and also had an apse, which most likely served as a triclinium (a dining room).

Based on the floor mosaic composition discovered at this site and when comparing, respectively looking the analogy of the composition style and construction with the assembled floor mosaic of the Heraclea Lyncestis martyrium in Macedonia, but also similarly the floor mosaic composition of the Lin Basilica martyrium in Albania, the resemblance of the both sites with the Nerodime mosaic is evident, which reflects a masterpiece of a great artist/master of that time.^[1]

See also

• Roman Dardania
• Roman cities in Illyria
• Archaeology of Kosovo
• Roman Period Sites in Kosovo
• Neolithic Sites in Kosovo
• Copper, Bronze and Iron Age Sites in Kosovo
• Late Antiquity and Medieval Sites in Kosovo

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