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Excavation

  • Triconch Palace Butrint
  • Butrint
  • Buthrotum
  • Albania
  • Vlorë County
  • Bashkia Konispol
  • Xarre

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • The excavation during 2001 allowed the identification of three building plots that ran northwards from the Vivari Channel. The western plot is delineated to the south and west by the line of the city wall. The eastern boundary is thought to be adjacent to the small bath complex of the Triconch. In the 3rd or early 4th century a substantial building occupied part of Plot 1, indicated by the remains of an arcade built on a series of piers. Large quantities of transport amphora and access to the channel suggest commercial activity. Later a rectangular building was added to the arcade, which had most of its openings blocked. When the city wall was built earlier buildings were converted into a tower, which became part o of a gateway to the channel. In the early 6th century the arcade and early buildings were pulled down and shell middens were formed in the rectangular building.
    Other structures were built into the 7th century, which focused on the gateway. During the 11th to 13th centuries, Plot 1 was occupied by a series of timber buildings arranged around a metalled courtyard. Spreads of shell fish deposits and a series of hearths and ovens were found. Around the 13th century the gate was blocked and four crouched graves interned. The graves were disturbed and the large amount of soil indicates agricultural activity between the 14th and 16th centuries. Plot 2, contained the early domus, which expended in to Plot 3 when the large triclinium was added in the east. The 2001 excavations showed that this area was intened as a major monumental focus with entrances from the Vivari Channel and the city, and a substantial colonnade of marble columns and Corinthian capitals, fronted by a water-filled channel. Elaborate stone windows with Χ(Chi) Ρ(Ro) monograms were found.

  • Andrew Crowson - ICAA-International Center for Albanian Archaeology / IWA-Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia 

Director

  • Kosta Lako
  • Richard Hodges - ICAA-International Center for Albanian Archaeology / IWA-Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia

Team

  • Oliver Gilkes - ICAA-International Center for Albanian Archaeology / IWA-Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia

Research Body

  • IWA - Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia
  • Instituti Arkeologjik Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology)

Funding Body

  • Butrint Foundation
  • Packard Humanities Institute

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