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Excavation

  • Pliska - Palace
  • Pliska
  • Pliska
  • Bulgaria
  • Shumen
  • Novi Pazar

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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)

  • EXCAVATIONS IN THE PALATIAL CENTER OF PLISKA (Rasho Rashev, Yanko Dimitrov – yanko_aim@mail.bg) A circular building with timber construction was explored. Sixty-three holes of vertical timber posts were discovered. Forty-nine of them are arranged in circles, the outer one c. 28 m in diameter. The other post-holes are arranged in row oriented to the north and belong to a platform, 14 m in length and directed to the center of the building. The building dates to the 8th century AD. Ditches and holes of timber constructions were discovered, in addition to several underground passages. The earliest one is the northern part of the burnt underground passage that begins from the Palace of the Bulgarian Khan Krum (803 – 814) and leads to the northwest, passing under the foundation of the Pagan Temple. Furnace No. 8 situated under the foundations of Building ZhZI was explored. It is synchronous to furnaces Nos. 1 – 4, which are situated under the foundations of Building B4, together with pits containing charcoals and slag. A foundation of a circular building, 10 m in diameter, built of bricks bonded with mortar, was discovered to the south of Building B4. It was cut by the tripartite Building ZhZI and by other later constructions. The circular building was synchronous and functionally related to Building B4. The foundations of the Pagan Temple and the northern foundation of Building K belonging to the Capital period were discovered. Room I1 was discovered in the tripartite Building ZhZI. It is separated from the most eastern Room I through a passage, 1.10 m in width. The architectural complex dates to the Late Capital and Post-Capital periods. Two rooms located to the east of Baths K, two pits containing pottery of the 11th century excavated nearby and a floor level of a room belong to the latest occupation period (first half of the 11th century) of the former Palatial Center.

Director

  • Rasho Rashev - Archaeological Institute with Museum
  • Yanko Dimitrov - Shumen Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum

Team

Research Body

  • Archaeological Institute with Museum
  • Shumen Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum

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