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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)

  • EXPLORATIONS OF THE PALATIAL COMPLEX IN PLISKA (Rasho Rashev, Yanko Dimitrov – yanko_aim@mail.bg, Stanislav Ivanov) Constructions and material coming predominantly from the post-Capital period were discovered in the northwestern corner of the Palatial Square. Remains of earlier constructions were also found. A strip, which is 15 m in width and is located between the northern and the southern walls, was thoroughly explored inside the Citadel. After dismantling the stone pavement of the yard, seven occupation periods were explored (from the latest to the earliest): 1. Pits, stoves and houses situated above the pavement, or cutting through it. 2. Post-Capital stone buildings. 3. Buildings and pavements of the Capital period. 4. A building of the Capital period (circular construction with foundation of bricks and 10 m in diameter). 5. Furnaces for melting metals. 6. Ditches, postholes and secret underground passages. 7. Timber buildings. Remains of a circular timber building belonging to the earliest occupation period were explored. One hundred and thirty-nine postholes for wooden vertical posts were preserved. The postholes are located in four concentric rows and the outer one is 25.20 m in diameter. A wooden pillar, 80 cm in diameter and placed at 3.20 m in depth, stood in the center of the construction. There is a row of pillars from the northern side of the building. Most likely, the row of pillars supported a platform leading to the upper occupation level of the building. Two glass appliqués were found. The building dates from the end of the 7th to the end of the 8th centuries AD.

Director

  • Rasho Rashev - Archaeological Institute with Museum
  • Stanislav Ivanov - Shumen Branch of the Archaeological Institute and 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

Funding Body

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