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Excavation

  • Deultum - Thermae
  • Debelt
  • Deultum
  • Bulgaria
  • Burgas
  • Sredets
  • Debelt

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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 (Krasimira Kostova – kr.kostova@mail.bg, Elka Docheva, Maria Manolova-Voikova) An area of 120 sq. m was explored to the east of the praefurnium in the eastern part of the thermae and to the southeast of the bastion of the Early Byzantine fortification wall. The strata were 2 – 2.70 m thick. A stratum of the end of the 7th – 8th centuries AD was discovered, containing sherds including from amphorae of the Type 35 Saraçhane, Istanbul, and a coin of Constantine V Copronymus. The explorations of the latrine continued to the east of the tepidarium explored in 2011 – 2012. Two water-conduits and a drain were discovered to the west of the latrine. After the thermae were destroyed in AD 358, the eastern tepidarium was reconstructed during AD 360 – 375. A layer with traces from fire was discovered, dated by coins of Theodosius I and Valentinian II. The fire occurred after AD 383. The explorations of the layer with traces from fire that occurred in AD 450 – 455 continued. A pile of sherds was discovered and burned sun-dried bricks and agricultural tools were found. The pottery was represented by four amphorae of the LR 1 Type, one of which full with carbonized grain, three amphorae of the LR 2 Type, one amphora of the LR 7 Type, sherds from amphorae of the LR 3 and LR 4 Types. The mains drain of the eastern cardo was explored, 74 cm wide and 1.73 m deep, built of cut stones bonded with mortar. Sherds, mostly of pots and bowls of the 1st – 3rd centuries AD, and 68 coins were found in the drain. The earliest coins were of Domitian and a sestertius of Ulpia Marciana. The coins minted in AD 150 – 250 prevailed and the latest coin was minted by Valens.

  • Krasimira Kostova - Museum of History – Sredets 
  • Elka Docheva - National Museum of History 
  • Maria Manolova-Voikova - Regional Museum of History – Varna 

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  • Museum of History – Sredets

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