Koji je administrativni status rimskog naselja na Ilidži?
What was the administrative status of the Roman settlement in Ilidža?

Summary/Abstract: Medicinal sulfuric springs at present-day Ilidža helped to create Roman thermae that gave the Roman municipium the name Aquae. Systematic archaeological examinations conducted by Carl Patch and Esad Pašalić suggest that this Roman settlement in Ilidža had existed without interruptions from the 1st to the 4th century. Based on the comparison of literary sources and the results of archaeologic research and epigraphic inscriptions, this paper will determine the genesis of administrative development of this Roman administrative unit whose administration included the upper course of the Bosna river and the Sarajevo area. This is an attempt at answering the following question: “Can we speak of Aquae in the context of Roman citizens at all?” Another important question is what methodology should we use to treat the expression res publica Aquae S(...?) that was carved on the base of Diocletian’s statue discovered in Ilidža. BiH scholarship has so far based its understanding of this term on Mócsy’s definition of the noun phrase res publica in the context of “pseudo-municipal” status. The results of analysis of inscriptions found on epigraphic monuments that will be presented in this paper suggest that one should step away from understanding the phrase res publica as an administrative category. Finally, we should point out that the objective of this paper is to present the territorial and administrative development of Aquae, as it is an exact example of the Roman municipalization model in the provincial interior. This interior was usually geographically very distant from the most important economic and urban centers of the Roman Empire that has also left an impact on its cultural and historical development. Systematic archaeological research on the right bank of the Željeznica river in 2016 and 2017 has revealed several stratigraphic layers which include, among others, the ancient period. These new findings have been discovered more to the east compared to the previous findings, indicating that the urban complex of Aquae had been expanding toward the Sarajevo area.

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