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Excavation

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

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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).

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Summary (English)

  • Continuing the previous seasons, this year excavations were undertaken in the area N (trenches N2 and N5) and in the areas K-P (trenches K4-P1A), which were related to the yard L in the northern and southern side. In the trenches N2 and N5 was discovered an area which might have been used a storeroom. A wooden covering found in the trench N2 leaned on a diaphragm wall with two arches and a central colonnade. Nearby the eastern wall was discovered a bench and several fragments of pithos. In the trench N5 were revealed two rectangular tanks which were related with each other on their eastern and western part. A staircase might have allowed access for putting the grapes into the tank. The excavation in trench K4 reached to the lowest floor level confirming the existence of a central gate in the southern wall. A northern gate was blocked in a later period of time. If the dimensions of trench K4 are the same with those of K1 and K2, the area seems to have passed through important transformation phases. During this year excavation were also carried out in the western area of the P1 trench (P1A). Under the tile layer was revealed a black sediment layer. A sondage undertaken in the southern wall revealed a drainage channel and a pavement with big stones, which was laid under the later staircase that gave access into K4.

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

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