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Excavation

  • Preslav - Monastery of Mostich
  • Veliki Preslav
  • Preslav
  • Bulgaria
  • Shumen
  • Veliki Preslav

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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 IN PRESLAV (Rossina Kostova – korina68bg@yahoo.com, Kazimir Popkonstantinov) The eastern and the western foundations of the Early Building, consisting of parallel rooms arranged in a line and situated to the south of the “Church of Mostich”, were discovered. The building was constructed at the end of the 9th century AD and preceded the construction of the church and the monastery. A later building was discovered over part of the earlier one. It consisted of parallel rooms arranged in a line and was oriented east – west. The building was part of the monastery complex. Four rooms were documented. The finds included sherds of the 10th century, a bronze Roman coin, small copper plates, a lead disc for striking a seal and a clasp of a book. The collapsed roof was discovered in front of the southern foundation of the building. It was covered with tegulae and imbrices. The proto-Bulgarian sign IYI was incised on some tegulae. The finds included two anonymous Byzantine folles: class A1 (AD 969 – 976) and class A2 (AD 976 – 1020), a half of a Byzantine lead seal of the 10th – 11th centuries and sherds of the 10th century. The building existed until AD 1025. The northeastern corner of a room was documented to the west of the Early Building consisting of parallel rooms arranged in a line. The finds included sherds of the 10th century, a bronze pendant made from a follis of Leo VI the Wise, nails and animal bones. The so-called glassworks, explored in 1953, was discovered to the west of the “Church of Mostich”. The foundations of an earlier building were documented at 80 cm in depth. The finds included a coin of Romanos I Lekapenos, coins (Latin imitations, type A of the 1230s), pottery of the 12th – 13th centuries and a gilded bronze appliqué. Three Christian graves (Nos. 32 – 34) were explored in front of the portico of the “Church of Mostich”. Skeletons of at least three individuals, rested on top of each other, were discovered in grave No. 33. The western portico was connected with the “Church of Mostich”.

  • Rossina Kostova - Department of Archaeology, Veliko Tarnovo University St. Cyril and St. Methodius 
  • Kazimir Popkonstantinov - Department of Archaeology, Veliko Tarnovo University St. Cyril and St. Methodius 

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  • Veliko Tarnovo University St. Cyril and St. Methodius

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