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Excavation

  • Tatar Masha Tumulus
  • Knyazhevo
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  • Bulgaria
  • Haskovo
  • Topolovgrad
  • Knjazhevo

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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)

  • EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF KNYAZHEVO (Daniela Agre – daniela.agre@abv.bg, Deyan Dichev) The explorations of Building No. 4 continued in the western part of the site. The foundation of a pillar was discovered in Room No. 3, 1.55 m by 1.10 m in size and 50 cm high. It was built of three courses of stones, while its upper part was constructed of sun-dried bricks and timber. A second metallurgical furnace was discovered in Room No. 3. Both furnaces in Building No. 4 dated to 300 – 275 BC. The building consisted of three rooms, respectively 9.80 m by 4.50 m, 13 m by 3.20 m and 14 m by 6.20 m in size. Both monumental pillars of Rooms Nos. 2 and 3 probably supported more than two floors. The building was part of the fortification, but probably it was also a house. The finds from the building included building ceramics, sherds from tableware and Greek amphorae, silver and bronze coins, bronze and silver jewelry. In the Central Sector, a room 5 m by 5 m in size, probably a bath was explored to the south of the Central Building. A layer of roof-tiles was discovered in the room and a terracotta bath-tub partly dug into the bedrock, was explored beneath. A sector of the southern fortification wall, 1.20 m wide, was discovered. Part of the wall was destroyed when a tumulus surrounded with a stone krepis was constructed over the ruins of the Central Building. Fragmentary building ceramics, sherds from amphorae, pieces of slag and charcoal were found in the eastern and the western ditch of the architectural complex. Three sunken-floored rooms with domestic ovens or a hearth, each one 4.50 m by 2.50 – 3 m in size, were explored to the north of the Central Building. Sherds, including from Greek pottery and amphorae, building ceramics, pieces of slag and bronze coins were found in the rooms. The rooms dated to 300 – 275 BC. The Thracian residence had three occupation periods: First Period (340 – 275 BC) which ended with a fire, Second Period (275 – 250 BC) related to metallurgical activities and Third Period (250 – 200 BC) when a tumulus was constructed over the ruins of the Central Building.

  • Daniela Agre - Archaeological Institute with Museum 
  • Deyan Dichev - Archaeological Institute with Museum 

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  • Archaeological Institute with Museum

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