



“We can only speculate whether we can connect Dionysus or his Illyrian counterpart with the wine vessels, and at the same time with the aforementioned mask, and whether we can find in them the deity to whom the cave served as a sanctuary and what rituals were performed there. The fact is that most of the finds associated with the sanctuary are located in the entrance and side parts of the cave, which were almost hidden and buried until excavation. Thanks to their location in a hidden, intact part of the cave, the finds have remained intact and almost completely preserved, almost like a frozen image more than two thousand years old,” said archaeologist Domagoj Perkić, head of the Archaeological Museum [of Dubrovnik Museums].
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