AQUAE S.
(Ilidža) Bosnia-Hercegovina, Yugoslavia.
A resort on the main road to the coast 3 km
SE of Sarajevo. Under Roman control by the 1st c. A.D.,
it achieved its greatest prosperity early in the 3d c. and
continued in use through the 4th c. The settlement became a municipium towards the end of the 2d c. A.D.
Excavations have produced the remains of the main
spa built over the source of the springs. This was a large
building richly decorated with imported Corinthian capitals, painted walls, and numerous mosaic floors. The remains of a courtyard house and hospital have been uncovered. The house, possibly the administrative center
for the spa, contained more than 30 rooms oriented
around a courtyard portico. The hospital included a
small bath block flanked by two groups of small rooms
with mosaic pavements of geometric design. The finds
from the site are kept in the Zemaljski Muzej in Sarajevo.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
J. Kellner, “Römische Baureste in Ilidže
bei Sarajevo,”
Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen aus Bosnien
und der Hercegovina 5 (1897) 131-62; E. Pašalić, “Rimsko naselje u Ilidže kod sarajevo,”
Glasnik Zemaljskog Muzeja u Sarajevo 14 (1959) 113-36; id.,
Antička naselja i komunikacije u Bosni i Hercegovini (1960); J. J.
Wilkes,
Dalmatia (1969)
MP.
M. R. WERNER
