page_title: Daorson
section_title: Site description
hierarchical_section_title: Daorson / Site description
caption_attribution_description: English: These are the remains of the outer walls of the ancient Illyrian city Daorson, located in the province of Herzegovina.
context_page_description: Daorson was the capital of a Hellenised Illyrian tribe called the Daorsi. The Daorsi lived in the valley of the Neretva River between 300 BC and 50 BC. The ruins of Daorson can be found at Ošanjići, near Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
context_section_description: Ošanjići consist of three linked stones groups, the disposition of which is dictated by the lie of the land.
  The central area is occupied by a dominant hill fort or acropolis below and to the south and south-west of which are terraces on the ridge, while to the east, on the Banje plateau, is the outer-acropolis area of residential and commercial, mainly artisanal and trade quarters of the settlement.
  The hill fort was built on a prehistoric fortified settlement which had been in existence there since the early (17/16th century BCE) to the end of the late Bronze Age (9/8th century BCE). The date of the ransacking of the town of Daorson that finally put an end to human settlement there can be determined with fair accuracy as the mid or second half of the 1st century BCE from the details of the wars waged by the Roman Praetor Vatinius against the Delmati. No permanent settlement ever arose on the ruins of the town of Daors. There is ample evidence of its advanced culture and civilization: it minted its own coins and produced complex artistically decorated buckles, there is graffiti on shards of pottery vessels, and parts of stone statues of human figures some 2 m in height were found.
  A megalithic wall, erected following the lie of the land, has been dated to the 4th century BCE, when both towers were probably built following the construction of the wall.  The rest of the acropolis is of later date, through to the 1st century BCE. 
  One of the most important finds is a helmet with the Greek inscription ΠΙИ, probably the abbreviated Illyrian name of the owner PINNES; it was probably made in the 3rd century BCE.[10]
caption: Remains of the outer walls of Daorson, as seen in 2013.
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