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Excavation

  • Abritus
  • Razgrad
  • Abritus
  • Bulgaria
  • Razgrad

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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)

  • ABRITUS (Galena Radoslavova – galena_rz@abv.bg, Georgi Dzanev) A room adjoining the southern fortification wall was discovered to the north of the entrance of Tower No. 23. Rooms built in rubble masonry were discovered to the west of the gate of the eastern fortification wall. The finds included sherds from amphorae, bowls and pots of the 4th century AD and coins of Licinius I, Constantius II, Valens and Arcadius. A wall built in mortared rubble was discovered over the foundations of these rooms. The related pottery dated to the end of the 4th – first half of the 5th century AD. Walls of rooms, adjoining the inner side of the southern fortification wall and built in rubble masonry, were discovered in front of the entrances of Tower No. 17 and Postern III. The related pottery dated to the first half of the 4th century AD. A section of a water-conduit of terracotta pipes, 12 cm in diameter, was discovered under the threshold of Postern III. Two rooms built in rubble masonry were discovered in the western part of the sector, one of them adjoining the inner side of the southern fortification wall. Part of a stone pavement was discovered in front of the entrance of Tower No. 17. A coin of the first half of the 4th century AD and a coin of Constantine the Great minted in AD 318 – 320 were found on the pavement.

  • Galena Radoslavova - Regional Museum of History – Razgrad 
  • Georgi Dzanev - Regional Museum of History – Razgrad 

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  • Regional Museum of History – Razgrad

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