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  • Late antique structure at the Demokracia square
  • Durrës
  • Durrachium
  • Albania
  • Durrës County
  • Bashkia Durrës
  • Bashkia e Durrësit

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Chronology

  • 330 AD - 630 AD

Season

    • During February 2010, a rescue excavation was undertaken at a building site in the city of Durrës. The excavation, which was located at the “Demokracia” square, near by “P. Meksi” street, revealed the remains of some walls ruin. 7 archaeological layers were identified. Under the deep level of humus a second deposit of dark green clay with a thickness varying from 0, 4 – 0, 7 m. consisted of mixed fragments of stones, bricks, tiles and ceramic. It was cut by a pit, containing fragments of stones, tiles, bricks, and pottery. The material found in this layer date mainly to the Late Antique period. Below this was a demolished Roman wall. It contained bricks, tiles, pottery, fragments of marble slabs and painted fresco remains. The fresco was painted in red Pompeian and green colour on a white background. The corner of Roman wall built with bricks and bonded with lime mortar was found below it. The wall was oriented East-West, 3, 10 m long and, 0, 37 m wide, with a height of 0, 3 m. In both sides of the wall were found wall paintings. In its inner part was found a structure made of bricks and mortar, which was used as a support for an amphorae. The structure might have been use as water drainage or as liquid storage. A further wall was found in section in, dating again to the Roman period. It was built with the same technique as the first wall. In the seventh layer was found another wall, dating to the late Roman period. The wall had a northeast and southwest orientation 2, 30 m long, 0, 55 m wide and 0, 20 m height. It was built with small stones bonded without mortar. The excavation revealed a great amount of amphorae, mainly of eastern Mediterranean types, such as LRA 1, LRA 2, LRA 3, LRA 4, LRA 5, as well as African amphorae of Keay’s 25, 62A type. It seems that the structures discovered in this rescue excavation represent internal walls of a building used during the 4 – 7th Century A.D.

FOLD&R

    • Michelle Hobart - Alessandro Carabia. 2022. The Second Archaeological season at Castellaraccio di Monteverdi 2019 (Civitella Paganico - GR) . FOLD&R Italy: 526.

Bibliography

    • Hakani (prep.), 2011, Raport vjetor 2010, Agjencia e Shërbimit Arkeologjik (Annual report, Archaeological Service Agency), Tirana