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Excavation

  • The agora of Apollonia
  • Pojan
  • Apollonia
  • Albania
  • Fier County
  • Bashkia Fier
  • Komuna e Dermenasit

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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)

  • The excavations of 2010 undertaken in the agora of the ancient city of Apollonia were located in sectors 15, 16 and G. In sector 16 the extremity of the eastern wall of the portico was uncovered, while the excavations carried out in sector 15 aimed to clarify the monument’s phases of use, and also reveal other earlier structures of this part of the city. Traces of the road system of Apollonia along with a building with a koilon, which is of an earlier phase then the portico wall and might correspond to a bouleuterion, were also revealed in sector 15. The structure has a curved wall with a perimeter of 15 m, which seems to have been destroyed in the Hellenistic period by the construction of the rear wall of the portico. Traces of a rectangular building were identified within the rounded wall, though the relative chronology between these two structures couldn’t be defined during this season. In the eastern edge of the portico, below the foundation layers, several terracotta figurines of the second half of the 6th Century BC were uncovered, which might relate with deposits layers of a sanctuary built at the top of the next by hill.
    While in sector G, a 40 m long ditch was dug, which was part of the urban system of the lower part of the city of Apollonia. Two phases of use were also noted in the sector; one of the Hellenistic and the other of the Roman Imperial period. These phases of use are associated with the occupation layers of a house revealed in this sector. It was built as a large stone structure in the Hellenic time and transformed into a mud brick house during the Roman period. The excavations revealed some extraordinary finds, such as two marble busts and a bronze leg, part of a large statue found in sector G, as well as the discovery of the sima of the portico of the city.

Director

  • Faik Drini - Instituti i Arkeologjisë Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology)
  • Jean-Luc Lamboley - Université Lyon 2

Team

Research Body

  • Instituti Arkeologjik Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology)
  • Université de Lyon II
  • École Française de Rome

Funding Body

  • Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères

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