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Excavation

  • Late antique structure at the Demokracia square
  • Durrës
  • Durrachium
  • Albania
  • Durrës County
  • Bashkia Durrës
  • Bashkia e Durrësit

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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)

  • During February 2010, a rescue excavation was undertaken at a building site in the city of Durrës. The excavation, which was located at the “Demokracia” square, near by “P. Meksi” street, revealed the remains of some walls ruin. 7 archaeological layers were identified. Under the deep level of humus a second deposit of dark green clay with a thickness varying from 0, 4 – 0, 7 m. consisted of mixed fragments of stones, bricks, tiles and ceramic. It was cut by a pit, containing fragments of stones, tiles, bricks, and pottery. The material found in this layer date mainly to the Late Antique period. Below this was a demolished Roman wall. It contained bricks, tiles, pottery, fragments of marble slabs and painted fresco remains. The fresco was painted in red Pompeian and green colour on a white background. The corner of Roman wall built with bricks and bonded with lime mortar was found below it. The wall was oriented East-West, 3, 10 m long and, 0, 37 m wide, with a height of 0, 3 m. In both sides of the wall were found wall paintings. In its inner part was found a structure made of bricks and mortar, which was used as a support for an amphorae. The structure might have been use as water drainage or as liquid storage. A further wall was found in section in, dating again to the Roman period. It was built with the same technique as the first wall. In the seventh layer was found another wall, dating to the late Roman period. The wall had a northeast and southwest orientation 2, 30 m long, 0, 55 m wide and 0, 20 m height. It was built with small stones bonded without mortar. The excavation revealed a great amount of amphorae, mainly of eastern Mediterranean types, such as LRA 1, LRA 2, LRA 3, LRA 4, LRA 5, as well as African amphorae of Keay’s 25, 62A type. It seems that the structures discovered in this rescue excavation represent internal walls of a building used during the 4 – 7th Century A.D.

  • Surja Lela - Agjencia e Shërbimit Arkeologjik (Archaeological Service Agency) 

Director

Team

  • Mariglen Meshini - Agjencia e Shërbimit Arkeologjik (Archaeological Service Agency)
  • Rexhep Halili - Instituti i Monumenteve të Kulturës (Albanian Institute of Monuments of Culture)
  • Tomi Poreçi - Agjencia e Shërbimit Arkeologjik (Archaeological Service Agency)
  • Eduard Shehi - Instituti i Arkeologjisë Tiranë, Departamenti i Antikitetit (Albanian Institute of Archaeology, Department of Antiquity)

Research Body

  • Agjencia e Shërbimit Arkeologjik (Archaeological Service Agency)
  • Instituti Arkeologjik Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology)

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