Прилог познавању хеленистичке фортификације на југоисточном Јадрану
Supplement to the Origins of the Hellenistic Fortifications in the Southeastern Adriatic Area

Summary/Abstract: Among several hundred Iron Age fortified settlements found in the southeastern Adriatic area and its hinterlands are some fifty indigenous strongholds that embed typical engineering solutions of Hellenistic fortifications, including dry stone ramparts with rectangular towers made of worked stone parallelepipeds, trapezoidal and polygonal blocks, constructed in so-called cyclopean masonry. Most of these structures, such are Daorson in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Rhizon, Buthua, Oulkynion, Meton in Montenegro; and Scodra, Lissos, Byllis, Nikaia, Orikos, Amantia in Albania, are dated to the period from the 4th to the 2nd centuries, B.C., and were made through the enlargement of Iron Age strongholds. Key elements of these fortifications (stone work, design of ramparts, towers, and entrances) have similarities with many Hellenistic forts in Greece, but their application is selective, unequally elaborated, and often gradual. The architecture of these forts, their dating and distribution in spa¬e, and historical context, may have influenced changes in military ta¬ti¬s. The design of these structures may have been brought by mercenaries returning from wars in Greece and the Hellenistic East in the 4th and the 3rd century, B.C., to their homeland in the southeastern Adriatic region.

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