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  • Deultum
  • Debelt
  • Deultum
  • Bulgaria
  • Burgas
  • Kameno
  • Konstantinovo

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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 explorations continued in the southeastern sector of the insula situated to the north of the thermae and explored during 1986 – 1990 and 2004 – 2012 when a temple of the Imperial cult, houses, fortification wall, decumanus, eastern and western cardines were discovered. In 2016, Sondage West was carried out in the northwestern sector of the area explored in 1986 – 1988. A room was documented. Its northern wall was dismantled. The finds included fragmentary building ceramics, sherds from amphorae and red-gloss vessels of the 2nd – 3rd centuries AD, a bronze coin of AD 348 – 352. Remains of houses were documented, which were burned during the second half of the 4th century AD. A pavement of bricks and reused marble veneer was made over a layer, containing burned timber beams, nails, fragmentary bricks and roof-tiles, sherds from amphorae and red-gloss vessels of the 4th century AD, fragmentary marble veneer, bronze coins (the latest one of Theodosius I of AD 383 – 394). The northern wall of a room built of bricks was discovered. It was burned after AD 401 – 403, judging by a bronze coin of Honorius. Sondages South and Western Profile were carried out in the area to the east of the western profile of 1988 and to the north of the decumanus. The northern kerbs of the decumanus were probably dismantled in the beginning of the 4th century AD. A building was documented, reconstructed after AD 270 – 275. The occupation level was raised with a layer of burned debris, containing sherds from amphorae, a terracotta lamp of the 2nd – 3rd century AD, fragmentary marble veneer, tesserae from mosaics, fragmentary roof-tiles, terracotta tubes that were pilae in a hypocaust, a marble relief, a statuette, a torso of a statue, legs of bronze statues, coins of Gordian III, Gallienus and Aurelian. A wall in opus mixtum and a pavement of stone slabs were discovered. After a fire, the occupation level was raised with a layer, containing fragmentary building ceramics, fragments from glass vessels of the 3rd – 4th centuries AD, a brick with s stamp that reads: CFP[D], a bone pin. Sondage East was carried out to the north and to the west of the fortification wall built in the mid 5th century AD, in the northeastern sector of the area excavated in 1986 – 1988. A room was documented in the northeastern corner of the area that was occupied by the temple of the Imperial cult until AD 275 – 300.

  • Hristo Preshlenov - Archaeological Institute with Museum 

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  • Archaeological Institute with Museum

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