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Excavation

  • 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)

  • ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN DEULTUM (Hristo Preshlenov – hristo.preshlenov@abv.bg) The explorations in the northern part of Deultum continued. The distance between the cardo maximus and the cardo to the east was 61 m and the distance between the decumanus and the decumanus maximus to the south was 101 m, thus the average area of the insulae was 1.2 iugerum. The cardo maximus was 8.30 m wide, paved with slabs and dated to the 2nd century AD. There was a drain in the middle of the street and the latest coin found inside the drain was a follis of Justinian I minted in AD 560/561. A water-conduit of terracotta pipes, 50 cm long, 10 – 13 cm in diameter and bonded with mortar, was documented. The southern curb stones of the decumanus were constructed of two rows of ashlars. Reconstructions were documented, probably carried out after an earthquake and a fire that occurred after AD 351/355. The decumanus was narrowed up to 1.65 m and a drain was constructed, which cut the earlier water-conduit. Debris from a burned building was discovered close to the decumanus and material of the 5th century AD and a bronze coin of AD 395 – 408 were found. In AD 350 – 375 a building with portico was constructed to the north of the decumanus, after the pavement was dismantled. The building was reconstructed and burned twice until the end of the 5th century AD. The debris from the earliest fire contained two coins of AD 408 – 423. A fire was documented in the building located to the west of cardo maximus and a bronze coin of AD 425 – 455 was found above it. A second fire was dated by a coin of Anastasius I Dicorus. The principles of the Roman urbanism in this part of the town were abandoned during the 6th century AD when buildings were constructed over the decumanus. After the end of the 7th – beginning of the 8th century buildings were also constructed over the cardo maximus. The finds included sherds from Byzantine pots and amphorae of the end of the 7th – 10th centuries.

  • Hristo Preshlenov - Archaeological Institute with Museum 

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  • Archaeological Institute with Museum

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