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Excavation

  • Kabiyuk Fortification - Temple
  • Konyovets
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  • Bulgaria
  • Shumen

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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)

  • ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN KABIYUK (Stanislav Ivanov – stanislavivanovarh@gmail.com, Tihomir Tihov) The earthen fortification was situated at c. 15 km from the capital Pliska and was the second largest fortification of the First Bulgarian Kingdom with an area of 350 ha. The explorations of the building of the first half of the 9th century AD continued. The building had a rectangular layout with a smaller rectangular room situated in the middle of the outer rectangle and is oriented east – west. The building was 26 m by 17.60 m in size and the inner rectangular room was 17.60 m by 9.60 m in size. There were wooden posts driven in the ground under the foundations of the walls. The posts were 7 – 8 cm thick and were arranged in five rows. Mortar pads with imprints from the ashlars of the foundations were discovered. All ashlars were taken away during the demolition of the building. The foundations were 0.97 – 1 m wide and were dug at c. 1.50 m in the ancient terrain. Marble architectural details were found: a column base, a capital, plates for floor and wall facing. The building was a proto-Bulgarian pagan temple. A pavement of ashlars, 1.20 – 1.30 m wide, was discovered to the north of the building. Postholes situated inside the inner rectangular room and along the outer face of its walls were documented. The postholes along the outer face of the walls of the inner room were 18, 1.20 – 1.80 in size, and were symmetrically arranged. The wooden posts in two of the postholes were quadrilateral beams, 50 cm by 50 cm in size. The postholes belonged to an earlier timber building, 19 m by 10 m in size, which preceded the stone building. Two graves in the Christian cemetery were discovered and the total number of the burials excavated so far reached eight. The Christian cemetery dates to the 10th – 11th centuries. It was situated above the central part of the building and appeared after its demolition.

  • Stanislav Ivanov - Shumen Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum 
  • Tihomir Tihov - Regional Museum of History – Shumen 

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  • Regional Museum of History – Shumen
  • Shumen Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum

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