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Excavation

  • Urban area of Hadrianopolis
  • Sofratike
  • Hadrianopolis/Ioustinianoupolis
  • Albania
  • Gjirokastër County
  • Bashkia Dropull
  • Komuna e Dropullit i Poshtëm

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Credits

  • 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)

  • During the year 2006 excavations were located in another area, which is part of the urban quarter of the city, approximately 116 m to the north of the theatre. Initially the area was cleared of the soil layers accumulated through the years. The clearance revealed that the drainage ditch cuts through one of the structures, reaching down to the floor level. This enabled the identification of 5 habitation phases. The first phase relates to a limestone floor layer. In a second phase the floor was destroyed and rebuilt utilizing reused materials. Also, at this phase the floor was cut by a wall which stands perpendicular to the channel. The third phase represents an abandonment layer. The successor phase bears signs of abandonment as confirmed by the presence of a black soil layer that is probably related to the demolition of earlier walls. In the later phase new walls were built. Their foundations were laid on the walls of the classical period.

Director

  • Apollon Baçe - Albanian Institute of Monuments
  • Gianfranco Paci - Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche e Storiche dell’Antichità dell’Università degli Studi di Macerata
  • Neritan Ceka
  • Roberto Perna - Università degli Studi di Macerata

Team

Research Body

  • Instituti Arkeologjik Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology)
  • Università degli Studi di Macerata

Funding Body

  • Ford Foundation
  • Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali

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