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Saint Peter of Osor: The Main Results
of Twelve Years of Archaeological
2025
Investigations

Morana Čaušević-Bully and Sébastien Bully
November
Invited Lecture

Abstract According to tradition, the Benedictine Monastery of Saint Peter in
Osor was founded at the beginning of the 11th century. While the modest re- 4–5
mains of the former large monastic church still mark the landscape of the ‘ru-
ralised’ city of Osor, almost nothing was known about the monastery, its to- Koper,
pography, architectural development, or the circumstances surrounding its
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foundation until our recent research. Archaeological excavations conducted
from 2006 to 2017 by Sébastien Bully and Morana Čaušević-Bully on behalf
of the International Research Centre for Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Spotlight
Ages at the University of Zagreb (IRCLAMA), the National Centre for Scientific
Research (CNRS) in France, and the French School of Rome (EFR), have pro-
vided important new insights into the site’s long history, extending beyond
its monastic period. This paper will present the main results of this research, Scientific
outlining the principal phases of human occupation and activity in this part
of Osor, from the Late Bronze Age to the Modern Period. Particular attention
will be given to the architectural remains of the religious buildings at the ori- the
gin of the monastic site and to the topography of the medieval monastery of in
Saint Peter.
Osor
Keywords Late Antiquity, Early Middle Ages, monastic architecture, church,
mausoleum

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