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AND AT THE END OF MY LIFE I BELIEVE THAT I WILL BE

EVEN AFTER DEATH I BELIEVE
I WILL EXIST

The living bury the dead with the belief that death is not the end but the beginning of life in another unknown, but promised world. What the deceased, their body or soul needed after death in the first four centuries is clearly visible through the items put inside the graves. Some 2,400 burial places have been found in the Zadar necropolis. Thousands of coins, candlesticks, glass and ceramic utensils, jewellery, toiletries and medical equipment placed in the graves offers a glimpse into the secret world of folk beliefs. Only the bones and the grave goods remain, but the soul has found its peace in a world as immaterial as the soul itself.

Jewellery and Toiletries

To decorate and care for the body in the other world, the living would equip the deceased with all the things they loved most in this earthly life.

Miniature glass bottles for cosmetic preparations, found in cremation grave 14 at the Benkovačka cesta site, in 1975. 1st century. Inv. no. A9920, A9921, A9922, A9923, A9924, A9925.

Bronze mirror found in cremation grave 245 at the Relja site, in 1989. The end of the 1st - the beginning of the 2nd century. Inv. no. A18132.
A bone spoon found in cremation grave 52 at the Relja site, in 2005. 1st century. Inv. no. A16840.
Silver ring with a gem on which a bird is depicted, found in skeletal grave 100 at the Relja site, in 2005. The 1st - beginning of the 2nd century. Inv. br. A11763.
Round bronze fibula, found in cremation grave 512 at the Relja site, in 1989. End of the 1st - beginning of the 2nd century. Inv. no. A31178.
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