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Excavation

  • Heraclea Sintica
  • Rupite
  • Heraclea Sintica
  • Bulgaria
  • Blagoevgrad
  • Petrich
  • Rupite

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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)

  • HERACLEA SINTICA (Lyudmil Vagalinski – lvagalin@techno-link.com) Four occupation periods were documented in the craft and living quarter discovered on Site 2. The end of the second occupation period was caused by a fire, accompanied with an attack with spherical stone projectiles that destroyed houses built of sun-dried bricks. In that time the southern and eastern feet of the hill were protected with fortification wall built in the period after the 1st century AD and before AD 257. During the third occupation period a supporting wall in opus mixtum with a monumental staircase leading towards the quarter were constructed. The houses were built of sun-dried bricks over stone foundations. Spolia were also used in the buildings and the roofs were covered with tiles. The third occupation period ended due to a fire, which occurred after AD 276, at the end of the 3rd century AD. The fourth occupation period also ended due to a fire, which occurred after AD 383, at the end of the 4th century AD. One of the barrel-vaulted rooms that was located to the east of the staircase was explored. The rooms had traces of occupation after the end of the fourth period, during the first half of the 5th century AD. Judging from a coin of Marcian, soon after AD 450 this part of the city was abandoned. The finds from the excavations included terracotta and stone loom weights, querns, bone hair pins, bone needles, glass bracelets, lead and terracotta fishing weights, pottery, terracotta figurines, terracotta moulds for producing lamps, terracotta lamps, an intaglio, a bronze figurine of Hermes of the 4th century AD, fragments from marble statues and from a small marble votive relief of Nemesis, 178 bronze and three silver (one of them fourrée) coins. It is interesting that coins of the 2nd – 1st centuries BC circulated simultaneously with the Late Roman coins. There were Barbarian imitations of coins of Constantine the Great that circulated in the period AD 319 – 350. A dolium of the third occupation period had a stamped Greek inscription that reads: “Production of Dionysios”.

  • Lyudmil Vagalinski - Archaeological Institute with Museum 

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  • Archaeological Institute with Museum

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