Fasti Online Home | Switch To Fasti Archaeological Conservation | Survey
logo

Excavation

  • Basilica B at Bylis
  • Hekal
  • Bylis
  • Albania
  • Fier County
  • Bashkia Mallakastër
  • Komuna e Hekalit

Tools

Credits

  • 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).

  • AIAC_logo logo

Summary (English)

  • During the 2007 season the excavations were located in the south-eastern area of the Episcopal complex. This excavation aimed at the discovery of the area K-P, which was related to the south with the yard L. Trenches N1-N5 were excavated and also studied the structures and the archaeological material found in the area. The plan area known as K-P comprises 5 long trenches, K1-K5. Four of the trenches were opened at the yard during its latest phase. The southern façade includes the trenches P3 and P4, which have a quadrangular plan and have the same width with trenches K1-K5. In the trenches P1 and P3 continued the excavation which has taken place since the year 2002. In the trench P3 was entirely revealed the basement, whereas in the area P1 were excavated a series of parallel kilns. In the trench N2 was revealed quite a big bench and several fragments of a pithos, used probably for storing food supplies. In the trench N5 was revealed a cutting tool of square shape, which confirms the functional character of the complex at this time. It is possible that the kilns were used for boiling the water, necessary in the oil production process. Understanding the economic character of this complex will help also defining the reasons that lead to its destruction.

Director

  • Pascal Chevalier - Université Blaise Pascal
  • Skёnder Muçaj - Insituti i Arkeologjisë Tiranë, Departamenti i Antikitetit të Vonë dhe Mesjetës së Hershme (Albanian Institute of Archaeology, Department of Late Antiquity and Early Medieval)

Team

  • Solinda Kamani - Instituti i Monumenteve të Kulturës Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Monuments of Culture)
  • Elio Hobdari - Instituti i Arkeologjisë Tiranë, Departamenti i Antikitetit të Vonë dhe Mesjetës së Hershme (Albanian Institute of Archaeology, Department of Late Antiquity and Early Medieval)
  • Nicolas Beaudry - Université du Québec à Rimouski
  • Marie-Patricia Raynaud - CNRS, UMR 7572

Research Body

  • Instituti Arkeologjik Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology)
  • Université Blaise Pascal

Funding Body

  • Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères
  • École Française d’Athènes

Images

  • No files have been added yet