PESË MONUMENTE TË PABOTUARA NGA KOLEKSIONI ARKEOLOGJIK I ANTIKITETIT NË MUZEUN E KOSOVËS
FIVE UNPUBLISHED MONUMENTS FROM THE ARCHEOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF THE ANTIQUITY IN THE MUSEUM OF KOSOVA

Summary/Abstract: As full and relief sculpture worked in marble during the antiquity in today’s Kosova that offers quite important monuments, among which are present both, those of high artistic quality made in promi-nent antique centers for sculptures, and the epigraphic monuments worked in any kind of stone offer important data, too. This time the object of the study are five esamples from the archaeological collection of the antiquity in the Museum of Kosova, for which has not been spoken until now. They are part of different topics. One has to do with a female head (fig. 1 a-c), the other with a female statue (2 a, b) and three others with Goddesses: statuary group of Venus (fig. 3), nymph relief (fig. 4) and the altar dedicated to Dardanica godess (fig. 5). Probably three of them (the statue and two cult monuments) were found in Ulpiana and belong the second and third century, while the altar is found in Vendenis and belongs to the middle of the third cent., whereas the head represents a unique case. In one side, all these sculptural realizations with their features represent quite valuable exemplars for the genre of full and relief sculpture made in stone not only in Kosovo, but in entire Dardania. Especially two of them (the head and sculptural group of Venus) with their peculiarities: first worked perfectly, probably in pentelic marble with the features of the Greek sculpture time (a time to which probably it belongs) in a Greek (Attic) atelier and the second with its peculiar iconographic presentation consist unique exemplars for this region and, at the same time, are very rare broadly. Also with quality marble of foreign origin of two others (seems Greek), and with the quality of work (relief of the nymph) are reflected Kosovo's trade ties with recognized centers of sculpture. The statue is a testimony for the skillfulness of Ulpiana workshop in working such sculptures.At the other side, epigraphic monument dedicated to Deae by beneficiarius consularis of the IV Flavian legion, by reveling to us beneficiary outpost in Vendenis, until now unknown, together with two other altars from the region of Dardania (Aquae Bas... and nowadays Smira), whose dedicators were also engaged in the activity of stations (sefaty and customs), testify that it, among multiple other functions, was also protector of roads, stations, travelers, traders, and transport-tation, especially of minerals with a special highlight on gold, by producing of which Dardania was very well known. At the same time, this altar, by increasing their number in three by Vendenis, speaks of possibility of existence of Deae sanctuary (temple?) in this settlement and station, in which case would represent second case in the territory of Dardania. As such they do make a valuable treasure of archeological colle-ction of antiquity in Kosova Museum.

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