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Excavation

  • Apollonia - St. Cyricus Island
  • Sozopol
  • Apollonia, Sozopolis
  • 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)

  • ST. CYRICUS ISLAND (Krastina Panaiotova – kpanayotova@abv.bg, Metodi Daskalov, Katya Trendafilova) A Temple from the end of the 6th – first quarter of the 5th centuries BC was explored. Probably, it was built in Ionic order with two columns in antis and was over 11.80 m long. The finds included Corinthian tegulae, Laconian imbrices and terracotta decorative plates showing warriors. There was an altar, 5.95 m by 5.76 m in size, close to the temple. A temple from the end of the 4th – beginning of the 3rd centuries BC was discovered. Probably, it was with two columns in antis and was 9.60 m by 6 m in size. The finds included Corinthian tegulae and imbrices. A tholos, 5.60 m in diameter and dated after the mid 4th century BC, was explored. Bothroi were discovered and they contained animal bones, terracotta figurines (including Harpocrates), East Greek pottery in the Wild Goat Style of the end of the 7th – beginning of the 6th centuries BC, amphorae in the Fikellura Style of 560 – 490 BC, Ionic oinochoai, amphorae, a hydria and dishes of the 6th century BC, Attic black-figure cups, a krater, a kylix and skyphoi of 575 – 490 BC, and amphorae of the 6th – beginning of the 5th centuries BC from Samos, Miletos, Chios, Klazomenai and Lesbos. The finds from the excavations included graffiti from the end of the 6th – 5th centuries BC, including IH/HI related to Apollo IНTPOΣ, arrowhead coins, coins of Lysimachus, Olbia, Vespasian, Septimius Severus, Caesarea in Cappadocia, Quietus, Aurelian, etc., and votive reliefs of the Thracian Horseman of the Roman period. A three-nave single-apse basilica of the end of the 4th – beginning of the 5th centuries AD was discovered. It was over 22 m long and 13 m wide and had an adjacent baptistery with piscina. There was a Christian necropolis close to the basilica and 63 graves of the 5th – 7th centuries AD were explored. Some of the deceased were rested in wooden coffins or amphorae. Some graves were cists or built of stones and bricks and contained multiple burials of up to 9 individuals. Two deceased were rested in a Hocker position. The grave goods included terracotta lamps, an oinochoe, a glass cup, gold, silver and bronze earrings and bracelets, iron and bronze belt buckles and appliqués of the Salona – Istria and Syracuse types.

  • Krastina Panaiotova - Archaeological Institute with Museum 
  • Metodi Daskalov - Archaeological Institute with Museum 
  • Katya Trendafilova - Archaeological Institute with Museum 

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  • Archaeological Institute with Museum

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