Bronze fragment of an classical portrait or a statue from Gromile near Šipovo on Pliva River

Abstract

While visiting museums in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as archaeological collections in Franciscan monasteries, I also visited the Archaeological Collection of the Franciscan Monastery in Jajce. Then I noticed among the exhibits an exceptional bronze fragment of an ancient portrait, a statue, probably of a high Roman dignitary found at the site of Gromile or from the place where the honorary fragmentary base of Kai Minicius Fundan originates. Considering this archaeological fact and other, equally significant archaeological finds from this urban agglomeration, I decided to publish this bronze part of the portrait or statue. Judging, therefore, according to the archaeological circumstances of the finds at the location of Gromil and beyond in Sipovo on the Pliva, I would try to attribute it to the already well-known honorary base, which was erected by the Roman citizens of Baloia (Šipovo) probably to the patron of their city, Caius Minicius Fundanus, for which we have serious archaeological evidence, especially the lower legs of the statue.