ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the burial record of two of the most well-known Roman towns in Slovenia, Colonia Iulia Emona (modern Ljubljana) and Colonia Ulpia Traiana Poetovio (modern Ptuj). Specifically, it focuses on the intersection of female gender, ethnicity, and expressions thereof through objects of personal adornment and their combinations placed into graves. The chapter pays particular attention to the notion of Norico-Pannonian dress that is usually uncritically read within the framework of Romanisation in Slovenian archaeology. By charting the association of women with “native” conservatism in Slovenian nationalist readings of the Roman past, the chapter uses the funerary data to make a case that the archaeological evidence presents a far more complex picture.
