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  • Deultum
  • Debelt
  • Deultum
  • Bulgaria
  • Burgas
  • Sredets
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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)

  • DEULTUM (Hristo Preshlenov – hristo.preshlenov@abv.bg) The decumanus to the west of its junction with the cardo was 3.60 m wide with kerbs 25 cm wide each one. There was a drain under the pavement of the street. To the east, the drain run into the drain beneath the cardo. A coin of Augustus was found in the drain beneath the cardo. Both streets had pavements of the 4th century AD. A building was documented and coins of Domitian and Trajan, Roman and Early Byzantine sherds and fragments from glass vessels were found in its drain. The later pavements of the decumanus and the cardo dated to AD 400 – 425. Coins of Theodosius II were found. A bronze coin of Arcadius was found in the drain of the cardo. A water-conduit with terracotta pipes, 11 cm in diameter, was documented under the western kerb of the cardo and under the pavement of the decumanus. A building was discovered, burned before the end of the 4th century AD. Coins of Constantius II, Valens and Valentinian II were found. Another building, constructed in opus mixtum in AD 350 – 375, was explored to the west of the junction of the cardo and the decumanus. It was built over the leveled debris of Roman and Late Antique buildings and coins of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Aurelian, Probus and Diocletian were found in the debris. The building was burned at the end of the 4th century AD. A hoard of coins of Constantius, Valentinian II and Valens was discovered. In the beginning of the 5th century AD the building was reconstructed. Dolia, amphorae from Palestine, coins of Theodosius I, Arcadius, Honorius and Theodosius II were found.

  • Hristo Preshlenov - Archaeological Institute with Museum 

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  • Archaeological Institute with Museum

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