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Excavation

  • Vardarski Rid
  • Gevgelija
  • Gortinia?
  • North Macedonia
  • Gevgelija

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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)

  • In 2003 two excavation campaigns were carried out: first in May-June and then in October-November. During both seasons, the so called House of the Collector on the Eastern Terrace was excavated. The house is divided into two parts: a two-storey residential part on the west and a household part on the east, surrounded by porches along the eastern and southern side. The western part consists of three rooms, and the east¬ern represents a central open courtyard, where five large pithoi, stone platforms for hand wheat mills and a fireplace were discovered. Most interesting was Room 2, where an abundance of various finds, mostly pottery, a few bronze vessels, 16 terracotta figurines, marble sculpture of Aphrodite, Paionian cult bronzes, jewelry, objects made of bone, bronze and iron (tools and various other utensils), were discovered. There were 56 coins discovered in the whole house. The coins and rest of the artifacts date the house to the 2nd and early 1st cent. BC. The house was named The House of the Collector because the owner collected and preserved objects that are much older than the house itself: Paionian bronzes from the 7th and 6th cent. BC, glass beads from the late 6th and 5th cent. BC, a sculpture of Aphrodite, a strainer and a simpulum dated to the second half of the 4th cent. BC.
    At the same time, a part of the team excavated rooms 2, 3 and 5 of the so-called House with a Sanctuary, where several building phases were documented. A small pottery kiln belonging to the later building phase was discovered.

Director

  • Dragi Mitrevski - Faculty of Philosophy - Department of History of Art and Archaeology

Team

  • Aleksandra Papazovska - Archaeological Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia
  • Goce Kocevski - Museum of Macedonia
  • Emil Slamkov - Museum of Gevgelija
  • Silvana Blazevska - National Institution Stobi
  • Biljana Packova Kufojanakis - Cultural Heritage Office
  • Gjorgji Gusev - Museum of Gevgelija

Research Body

Funding Body

  • MobiMak

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