Tilurium
TILURIUM (Geogr. Rav. 4.31), or TILURI PONS (Itin. Ant. p. 337), a place in Dalmatia, on the river Tilurus. It appears to be the same place as the Tribulium of Pliny (Plin. Nat. 3.22. s. 26). Now Trigl. [T.H.D]
The site of the fortress of Legio VII Claudia pia fidelis. Situated on the top of the hill of St. Petar over the steep gorge of the Cetina (Hippius) river, it controlled a large central Delmatian area. There was a crossing over the Cetina and the camp commanded it just as Burnum commanded the crossing over the Krka (Titius) river on the W border of the Delmatae. Both Tilurium and Burnum were the final fortifications on a limes of the Roman army established against Illyrian tribes. The site of camp has not yet been explored archaeologically. The parts of the defenses built into farm buildings can be seen. The site yielded many inscriptions, mostly the tombstones of the legionnaires. A part of a 1st c. Roman triumphal monument is preserved in the Archaeological Museum at Split, showing the Delmatian prisoners bound at the foot of the Roman tropaeum. Legio VII left Tilurium ca. 60 A.D. for Moesia, and the auxiliary Cohort VIII voluntariorum civium Romanorum remained there until the 3d c.
The finds are preserved in the Archaeological Collection of the Franciscan Monastery at neighboring Sinj.
BIBLIOGRAPHYS. Gunjača, “Nov prinos ubikaciji Tiluriuma,” Vjesnik za arheologiju i historiju dalmatinsku 52 (1935-49) 50-52; G. Alföldy, “Tilurium, ein römische Legionslager in Dalmatien,” Banner Jahrbücher 165 (1965) 105-7.
M. ZANINOVIĆ