In this paper the author aimed to find out what family type existed in Libumia during the Principale period. In doing so, the author mainly dealt with tombstones, or rather with the pattern of personal relationships there attested, since the ancient writers gave little or no information at all upon the Libumion family structure. The results of this analysis are similar to the ones based on the evidence of archaeological excavations (houses and graves in the first place). Nuclear family relations dominated in Lite greatest part of Libumian population: they make 89% of all relations on tombstones of the civilian population (beneath the decurio rank, Tab. 1), 75% on tombstones of the civilian population above lite decurio rank (Tab. 2), and 71% on tombstones of the meagre sample of servile population (Tab. 4). Nuclear family dominated both in native and settled population. Relations between members of extended family and between members of affinitas (in- laws) are Tare, so they can't justify hypothesis on existence of the extended family type in the native Libumian population in the pre-Roman period; slightly higher percentages of those relations in the civilian population above the decurio rank should rather be interpreted as a sign of status endogamy practice than as a proof for the domination of the extended family type. Also, in the Liburnian civilian population the same rate of men and women as commemorators has been noticed; the frequency of women-commemoraiors in Liburnia outnumbers almost all the other examined samples in Western part of Roman Empire. It is possible, then, to conclude that in Libumian society women were equal to men - not only in funeral practice, but also in other fields of economic and social life. The family relations on tombstones of military population make only 41% of all commemorations (Tab. 3). This pattern of commemoration has already been noticed in other military populations of Roman Empire and it was connected with tire pattem of recruitment in which soldiers were posted far from their native places. The greatest part of soldiers came to Liburnia from other parts of Roman Empire; separated from their kinfolk, they turned either to a heir (50% of all relations) or a co-soldier to take care about funeral and commemoration. Archaeological excavations of settlements and cemeteries in Libumia (both more often on pre-Roman sites) mostly unearthed houses of modest dimensions (average of 40-45 m2) and individual burials in pseudo-Hcllenislic family (?) tombs. Such results point out that the nuclear family was the most common form of family organisation in pre-Roman Libumia, as well as in Roman Libumia. Recent researches on family in Roman society have shown that its commonest family form was not extended, but nuclear family. Establishing of Roman government in Libumia didn't cause any radical changes in this field of social life; instead it is possible to follow the continuity of the nuclear family form, at least from Liburnian late pre-Roman period.
