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Excavation

  • Karadzhov Kamak Cult Site
  • Mostovo
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  • Bulgaria
  • Plovdiv
  • Asenovgrad

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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)

  • THRACIAN ROCK SANCTUARY NEAR THE VILLAGE OF MOSTOVO (Ivan Hristov – ivchristov70@abv.bg) The site is situated on a high rocky plateau with vertical cliffs more than 100 m in height. It measures 130 m in length by 35 m in width. Dozens of natural and artificial pits and grooves are situated across the entire plateau. The only entry to the plateau is from the southwest. It is a rocky crack 18 m in height. Steps were cut in the upper and lower parts of the rocky crack. A number of sherds of hand-made pottery, some with decoration, were found between the rocks with the rock-cut pits and grooves. The most typical pottery shapes are jars, cups, bowls and kantharoi. The pottery dates to the first half of the 1st millennium BC, predominantly to the 7th – 6th centuries BC. Sherds of wheel-made vessels were also found. They are synchronous to the coins found during the excavations (a copper antonianus of Emperor Gallienus, two Late Antique copper coins of the end of the 4th century AD, 40 nummi minted by Emperor Justinian I) and date from the second half of the 3rd to the first half of the 6th centuries AD.

Director

  • Ivan Hristov - National Museum of History

Team

Research Body

  • National Museum of History

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