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  • Deultum
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  • Deultum

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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 northeastern corner of the insula was discovered at 59 m to the east from its northwestern corner and the adjacent cardo that run along the eastern side of the Temple of the Imperial Cult was located. The drain was located under the slabs of the street and was built of stones bonded with mortar. The decumanus to the west of the junction was 6.50 m wide with two kerbs, 20 cm and 70 cm wide respectively. The water-conduit of the insula run at 1.50 m to the south of the decumanus and at 1.70 m to the west of the cardo and was constructed of terracotta pipes, 17 cm in diameter, placed in a mantle of stones covered with bricks. After a fire in the 3rd century AD, a new water-conduit was constructed with terracotta pipes 11.5 cm in diameter. At the end of the 4th century AD the decumanus was narrowed up to 1.35 m with a building constructed on part of it. The room to the south of the decumanus, 8.70 m by 4.85 m in size, was divided in two parts. Coins of Constantius II and Valentinian I were found. A portico was built to the east of the room on the southern kerb of the street and two reused marble Ionic-Attic bases were discovered. A bronze coin of Valens was found on a pavement of bricks to the south of the portico. Two coins of Licinius I of AD 312/313 and 316 were discovered among burned sun-dried and terracotta bricks, situated on the level of the dismantled stone slabs of the street. Coins of Constantius Gallus, Constantius II, Valentinian I, Valens, Valentinian II, Arcadius, Honorius, Theodosius I and Theodosius II were found during the excavations. A coin of Honorius minted in AD 406 – 408 was found under the tiles of collapsed roof of a building constructed from sun-dried bricks to the south of the junction of cardo and decumanus, which was burned during some invasion, probably of Huns. The eastern fortification wall of Late Antique Deultum, built around the middle of the 5th century AD in opus mixtum and 2.35 m wide, crossed the earlier decumanus at 16 m to the west from the cardo.

    • Hristo Preshlenov - Archaeological Institute with Museum 

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    • Archaeological Institute with Museum

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