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  • Adamclisi [Tropaeum Traiani]
  • Adamclisi, ConstanČ›a county
  • Tropaeum Traiani
  • Romania
  • ConstanČ›a County
  • Comuna Adamclisi

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Periods

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Chronology

  • 106 AD - 600 AD

Season

    • A. During the archaeological campaign from July - August 2000 we focused on a number of parts of basilica D. Our purpose was not only to extend the excavations in order to obtain new information, but also to connect old results with the new one, for establishing a general view upon the general evolution of this part of the Roman town. In the current stage of the investigations we can emphasize some conclusions which are not definitive: here, at the ruins of the basilica, there are two basilicas built successively from the foundations and dated earliest to the 4th - 5th and 5th - 6th centuries A.D., maybe only the 5th century, because the one from the second half of the 4th century A.D. (entirely destroyed today) had to be smaller than the one visible today; the second basilica has two construction phases, both of them with marble decoration (rich enough); the first basilica was built inside a construction from the early Roman period which belongs to the monumental area of the forum; this construction has a hypocaustum (maybe were the baths or only a part of it was a bath). B. In September 2000 we focused on three parts of the basilica: S. 9 - 10, S. 2 and C. 21 (south of the atrium of the basilica). In S. 9 - 10 we found a stone wall like an "apse" bigger than the one previously known (this belongs to the construction inside which a basilica was built; it was used as an annex for the basilica; the apse was discovered in 1993 - 1994). By comparing the results from S. 2 with those from S. 3 we can presume that what we have here is an annex of the basilica connected with the atrium; the annex had two rooms and at least two developing phases. In C. 21 we have to continue the research during the next campaign because at present we have not enough elements to describe the evolution of the annex south of the atrium.

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