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Excavation

  • Agathopolis
  • Ahtopol
  • Auleouteichos, Agathopolis
  • Bulgaria
  • Burgas
  • Tsarevo
  • Ahtopol

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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)

  • AGATHOPOLIS (Andrei Aladzhov – alajov@gmail.com, Stanimir Stoichev) In Sector South, the explorations of the fortification wall with the towers and the gate continued. In Trenches E/6 and E/8 a street pavement in front of the fortification gate was documented and parts of walls synchronous to the fortification wall were discovered. Walls of two buildings of the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries were discovered. In Sector North, the walls of a building dated by five coins of the 4th century AD were discovered in Trenches Z and Zh. A layer of debris was discovered, which was leveled during the construction of the fortification wall and was dated to the end of the 5th century AD by coins of Anastasius I Dicorus. A layer of fragmentary roof-tiles and burned boards was situated beneath, dated to the mid 5th century AD by coins of Theodosius II. A leveling layer that preceded the construction of the building during the 4th century AD was situated beneath, containing mixed material of the 3rd–4th centuries AD, Late Hellenistic sherds and a few Thracian sherds of the Late Iron Age. A layer of debris of the 11th century, dated by a Byzantine lead seal, was documented over the wall close to the inner side of the fortification gate. Two anonymous folles of the Class A2 were discovered at the foundation of the wall; they dated the building of the Mediaeval structure to the AD 930s. A sector of a road paved with stones and a bastion for artillery of the 18th – 19th centuries were explored.

  • Andrei Aladzhov - Archaeological Institute with Museum 
  • Stanimir Stoichev - Regional Museum of History – Shumen 

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  • Archaeological Institute with Museum

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