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Excavation

  • Villa of Diaporit
  • Diaporit, Butrint
  • Buthrotum

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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 2002 excavations identified three major phases to the Roman villa. The earliest phase of the villa, dated to the mid 1st century, was on a different alignment to the later phases. This allowed isolated remains to be associated with them. The complex appeared to be at least 60m by 40m. The villa probably comprised four wings laid out around a large central courtyard with a garden surrounded by a peristyle. The second phase consisted of significant alterations during the second century with the new bath house complex noted in previous seasons and the extending of the villa 40m to the south. In the late second or early third century the marble decoration was taken and the apsidal room became a kitchen. A black layer developed during its use, which contained huge assemblies of cooking pots. The third phase used the 2nd century remains as foundations for the new villa. This complex was much smaller and the storage facilities found suggested that villa may have had two storeys, the upper for accommodation. The lower floor also contained a small but elaborately decorated room, a possible estate office. Other ruined areas of the earlier villas were used for burial and dumping rubbish.

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

    Director

    • Ilir Gjipali - Instituti i Arkeologjisë Tiranë, Departamenti i Prehistorisë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology, Department of Prehistory)
    • Richard Hodges - ICAA-International Center for Albanian Archaeology / IWA-Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia

    Team

    • William Bowden - School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham

    Research Body

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

    Funding Body

    • Atticus Foundation
    • Butrint Foundation
    • Packard Humanities Institute

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