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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)

  • EXPLORATIONS IN APOLLONIA (Krastina Panaiotova – kpanayotova@abv.bg, Dimitar Nedev, Martin Giuzelev) The water-conduit of terracotta pipes, 62 cm in length, 16 cm in diameter and connected with lead clamps, was explored at 48.85 m in length. It was used during the end of the 5th – beginning of the 4th centuries BC. One hundred and eighty three graves from the middle of the 5th to the end of the 3rd centuries BC were discovered. Six of them were cremations outside the burial space. The ash and the grave goods were placed in ceramic urns covered with dishes. The grave pits, often containing remains of wooden coffins, are predominant among the inhumation burials. Dolia were used for two inhumation burials. Tiles were used for the construction of 11 graves and 17 graves were built of stones. In most cases the deceased lie on their back and in 149 graves they are oriented to the east. Funerary stelae with the names of Ionian Greeks buried during the end of the 5th – beginning of the 4th centuries BC were found. The grave goods include alabastra, amphorisks, unguentaria, local and Attic lekythoi, black- and red-figure pyxides and lebetes, black-gloss and red-figure jugs, pelikai, a krater, oinochoai, kylikes, skyphoi and kantharoi, a ceramic phiale, terracotta lamps, loom weights, spindle whorls, terracotta figurines of a Satyr, actors and animals, needles, fibulae, strigils, mirrors, bracelets, earrings, a golden finger ring, a funerary wreath of gilded bronze leaves and terracotta fruits, bronze and silver coins predominantly minted in Apollonia and often used for Charon’s obols, knives, an arrowhead, a dagger, a sword, a small lead boukranion, bone astragaloi, amphorae of Herakleia Pontica, Chios, Thasos etc. Remains of a building of the 9th – 10th centuries AD were discovered. Nineteen graves of the 12th – first half of the 13th centuries were explored.

Director

  • Dimitar Nedev - Archaeological Museum in Sozopol
  • Krastina Panaiotova - Archaeological Institute with Museum
  • Martin Giuzelev - Archaeological Museum – Burgas

Team

Research Body

  • Archaeological Institute with Museum
  • Archaeological Museum in Sozopol
  • Regional Museum – Burgas

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