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Excavation

  • Apollonia
  • Sozopol
  • Apollonia
  • Bulgaria
  • Burgas
  • Sozopol

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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 (Dimitar Nedev – am_sozopol@abv.bg, Konstantin Gospodinov) Part of the fortification wall, 15.30 m long, was explored between Miletos Street and the waterside alley. The wall is 1.70 in width and is preserved up to 4.80 m in height. The first construction period dates to the end of the 5th – beginning of the 6th centuries AD. A gate closed with a wall, a limekiln and drainage into the fortification wall were discovered. The finds include glass unguentaria and bowls and Late Antique pottery. The second construction period of the fortification wall dates after the 12th century. A house was explored. The finds include tegulae, imbrices, two bronze coins and pottery of the end of the 4th – beginning of the 3rd centuries BC. A pavement of stones and a cistern, 2.50 deep and with an opening 1.10 m in diameter, were discovered. The cistern contained fragments of a black-gloss pelike and amphorae from Herakleia Pontica and Thasos of the second half of the 4th century BC. A building of the end of the 5th century BC was discovered. The lowest stratum contained East Greek pottery of the 6th century BC. During previous excavation seasons, the late antique and the mediaeval fortification walls, a workshop for production of sgraffito pottery of the 13th – 14th centuries and a sanctuary of Hekate of the end of the 3rd – first half of the 2nd centuries BC were discovered between Apollonia Street and the waterside alley. In 2006, a U-like fortification tower and the peribolos surrounding the Hellenistic sanctuary were explored. The finds include fragmentary tegulae, an amphora stamp and pottery. A cistern, 4.50 m deep, with an opening 0.90 – 1 m in diameter and a bottom 1.40 m in diameter, was explored at Ribarska Street. The finds date to the end of the 3rd – beginning of the 2nd centuries BC and include tegulae and imbrices, pottery, amphorae stamps of Rhodos and Kos, and two Megarian bowls. A pit containing material of the second half of the 5th century BC was discovered.

  • Dimitar Nedev - Archaeological Museum in Sozopol 
  • Konstantin Gospodinov - Archaeological Museum – Burgas 

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  • Archaeological Museum in Sozopol

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