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Excavation

  • Public Structure at Hadrianopolis
  • Sofratike
  • Hadrianopolis/Ioustinianoupolis
  • Albania
  • Gjirokastër County
  • Bashkia Dropull
  • Komuna e Dropullit i Poshtëm

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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)

  • The excavations of this year were located to the north of the theatre, in an area which was interpreted by the authors as a public structure. Initially the humus layer was removed in order to reach the first archaeological strata. This layer was made of clay and rounded stones, which were about 1 m high. Although the sondage didn’t reach the foundation layers, it revealed a wall of 48-52 cm wide, oriented to the east-west direction. The wall is made of worked and regular stones bounded with lime mortar. The excavations revealed another wall -52 cm wide, made of limestone, which might be related to a reconstruction phase of the building. Finally, a clay layer was discovered filled with stones, which suggests the final phase of this public building. Above this layer was built a dry stone wall.

Director

  • Apollon Baçe - Albanian Institute of Monuments
  • Gianfranco Paci - Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche e Storiche dell’Antichità dell’Università degli Studi di Macerata
  • Neritan Ceka
  • Roberto Perna - Università degli Studi di Macerata

Team

Research Body

  • Instituti Arkeologjik Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology)
  • Università degli Studi di Macerata

Funding Body

  • Ford Foundation
  • Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali

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