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Excavation

  • Apollonia - Necropolis
  • Sozopol
  • Apollonia
  • Bulgaria
  • Burgas
  • Sozopol
  • Ravadinovo

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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)

  • APOLLONIA (Teodora Bogdanova – vorbog@gmail.com, Dimitar Nedev) A tomb, 4.80 m by 4.80/4.60 m in size, built of roughly-cut stones was explored. Its entrance was to the east and it was walled with roughly-cut stones. The floor was plastered with lime. There were surrounding walls around the tomb. Seven burials were explored: five of the Hellenistic period and two of the Roman period. Cist Grave No. 4 of the end of the 4th – beginning of the 3rd century BC was situated under the tomb. A child was buried in the grave and the grave goods included terracotta figurines, ceramic vessels, astragals, gold earrings and a necklace. Central Graves Nos. 7 and 8 of the first half of the 3rd century BC were two niches in the western wall of the tomb that were looted in the antiquity. Skeletal remains from a woman, 20 – 45 years old, and a man, 30 – 50 years old, and part of the grave goods (a glass alabastron, three unguentaria, a funerary wreath, an astragalos, six coins) were found in front of the niches. Grave No. 3 of a girl, 11 – 15 years old, containing a coin of the second half of the 3rd century BC, was explored over the southern surrounding wall of the tomb. A burial of a small child in an amphora of the 3rd century BC was documented in front of the eastern façade. Five ritual hearths were documented. Seven funerary stelae were discovered, one of them situated in front of the tomb and containing the names of the deceased: ʽΗγοῦς Ἐκαταίου Πάρμιος γυνή. (additionally written:) Πάρμις Δημητρίου – “Hegous (daughter) of Hekataios, wife of Parmis. (additionally written:) Parmis (son) of Demetrios.” The other stelae were reused in the structure of the tomb. During the Roman period the tomb was reused. Grave No. 2 of the first half of the 1st century AD was discovered in the tomb chamber. The deceased was a man, 20 – 40 years old. The grave goods included a glass phiale, a ceramic cup with relief decoration showing personages from the Dionysus’ thiasos, and a knife. A krepis was built around the tomb and Grave No. 1 of AD 25 – 50 was discovered on top of it. The deceased was a man, 20 – 40 years old. The grave goods included a glass cup, a red-gloss bowl, a knife, a coin and a gold wreath. Graves Nos. 1 and 2 were built of roof-tiles and covered with stones and both burials were cremations.

  • Teodora Bogdanova - Archaeological Museum in Sozopol 
  • Dimitar Nedev - Archaeological Museum in Sozopol 

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  • Archaeological Museum in Sozopol

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