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  • Novae
  • Svishtov
  • Novae
  • Bulgaria
  • Veliko Tarnovo
  • Svishtov

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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)

  • NOVAE (Pavlina Vladkova – pavlina_v@yahoo.com) During the third construction period (4th century AD) Room D measured 16.50 m by 4.50 m. Its walls were constructed with sun-dried bricks over a plinth of stones. A floor of trampled clay was discovered with a burned roof construction with tegulae and imbrices that collapsed over it. There were entrances on the eastern and the southern walls of the building, which were subsequently closed, and drains that existed during the first phase of the second construction period (end of the 2nd – beginning of the 3rd centuries AD). During the second construction period (AD 180 – 280) the room measured 13 m by 4.50 m and it was separated in two parts: the western one with a hypocaust and 4.50 m by 7 m in size and the eastern one 4.50 m by 5.50 m in size. A water-conduit in the prefurnium was explored, 1.60 m long and 45 cm wide, and a coin of Julia Soaemias was found inside. During the third phase of the second construction period (AD 250 – 280) the hypocaust in the room was not functional, but the entrance from the east continued to exist. The southern wall was decorated with frescoes, showing panels with altars, 1.30 m long and separated with vertical black bands. A red band was painted above the altars and a vessel with fruits was depicted on each altar. Room E1 had a hypocaust and dated to AD 250 – 280. A collapsed burned roof construction was discovered over the floors in both rooms and more than 20 coins were found above the debris dated from Aurelian to Justinian I, including coins of Marcian, Leo I the Thracian and Zeno. The wall of Room I of the first construction period (from the beginning of the 2nd century AD to the AD 170s) was discovered close to Room E1. The residential building was situated at 200 – 250 m to the west of the western fortification wall of Novae. A street, 4.50 m wide, was situated to the north of it. During the first construction period, the canabae of Legio I Italica were situated there.

  • Pavlina Vladkova - Regional Museum of History – Veliko Tarnovo 

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  • Regional Museum of History - Veliko Tarnovo

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