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  • Apollonia - Necropolis
  • Sozopol
  • Apollonia
  • Bulgaria
  • Burgas
  • Sozopol
  • Ravadinovo

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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)

  • APOLLONIA (Krastina Panaiotova – kpanayotova@abv.bg, Margarit Damyanov, Teodora Bogdanova) Sherds from a sgraffito bowl (champlevé) of the 13th – 14th century and a fragment from a roof-tile with a graffito were found. Parallel trenches were documented, located at 1.20 – 1.30 m from each other, 50 – 80 cm wide and 15 – 18 cm deep, long up to 23.40 m. The trenches were from vineyards of the 2nd – 4th centuries AD. Burial Construction No. 1 was explored, c. 3.60 m by 3.60 m in size, with walls 60 – 65 cm wide, built of roughly-cut stones and limestone ashlars. A base from a funerary stele was discovered on the eastern wall of the construction and a layer with charcoal was documented inside. The finds comprised fragmentary roof-tiles, sherds from amphorae, an ichthye, a jug, a vessel with West Slope decoration and a dolium, dated to 300 – 275 BC. A pit with the size and the layout of a grave cut out into the bedrock was discovered to the south of Construction No. 1. Burial Construction No. 2 was discovered, c. 4.20 m by 4.40 m in size, with walls built of roughly-cut stones and limestone ashlars. Grave No. 1 was discovered inside the construction; it was looted. Gilded bronze leafs and small terracotta fruits from a funerary wreath were found. The finds discovered inside and around Construction No. 2 comprised fragmentary roof-tiles, a fragment from a marble architectural detail, a terracotta loom weight, a bottom from amphoriskos, sherds from amphorae from Heraclea Pontica, Thasos and Mende of the middle of the 4th century BC, a sherd from a red-figure vessel and sherds from black-gloss cups of 375 – 350 BC, sherds from an oinochoe with West Slope decoration and from two kantharoi of the first decades of the 3rd century BC. The burial construction was used from the middle of the 4th to the first decades of the 3rd centuries BC. A ritual hearth was discovered to the southeast from Construction No. 2, containing an unguentarium, sherds from an ichthye, a bowl and a small bowl. A semicircular krepis was discovered, c. 80 cm wide and more than 5 m long.

  • Krastina Panaiotova - Archaeological Institute with Museum 
  • Margarit Damyanov - Archaeological Institute with Museum 
  • Teodora Bogdanova - Archaeological Museum in Sozopol 

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  • Archaeological Institute with Museum
  • Archaeological Museum in Sozopol

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