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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 2003 excavations uncovered remains dating to the Hellenistic and Republican periods and further sections of the bath house complex. On the lower terrace beneath 1st century AD deposits a wall and a line of three cross-shaped pier bases were found. A coin minted at the Greek colony of Apollonia and dating to the third century BC was discovered in deposits that lay under the wall. Other walls of similar construction and orientation (different to that of the later villas) were found representing additions and alterations. The remains suggested two phases of the early complex one dating to the 3rd century B.C. and one to the 1st century B.C. Exploration of the foundations of the 1st century A.D. villa indicated that it used the terrace line of the preceding villa suggesting no hiatus in occupation. The new terrace lines created were elaborate and further rooms were discovered on the upper terrace one with a black and white marble geometric mosaic. At the start of the second century the foundations of a large new room on the upper terrace bisected the mosaic pavement. Detailed examination of the second villa phase shows that it was poorly constructed, the drains seemingly inserted as an afterthought following a haphazard route through doorways and around the ends of pre-existing buildings. During the abandonment in the 3rd century a room on the upper terrace was used for the production of pottery shown by a small pottery kiln and associated waste. Postholes were dug in to the mosaic securely dated to 200 -250 A.D.

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

    Team

    • Luan Përzhita - Instituti i Arkeologjisë Tiranë, Departamenti i Antikitetit të Vonë dhe Mesjetës së Hershme (Albanian Institute of Archaeology, Department of Late Antiquity and Early Medieval)

    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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