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  • Odessos
  • Varna
  • Odessos

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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)

    • ODESSOS (Alexander Minchev – aleksander.minchev@gmail.com, Valeri Yotov) Part of a large building constructed in opus mixtum was discovered. It had two entrances from the east. Sector of the northern wall 1 m wide was discovered. It had three pilasters from the inner side, two of them supporting an arched niche. A base of a square pillar that supported the second floor was situated against the second pilaster. A sector of the eastern wall with a pliaster that shaped the northeastern entrance was discovered. The finds dated to the 4th – 6th centuries AD an included sherds from amphorae, one of them of the Gaza Type, fragments from bricks, tegulae and imbrices, a fragment of a marble late Corinthian capital, fragments from marble tiles from floor, two bronze coins. The building was situated close to the ancient harbor of Odessos and was a warehouse or a shop.

    • Alexander Minchev - Regional Museum of History – Varna 
    • Valeri Yotov - Regional Museum of History – Varna 

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    • Regional Museum of History - Varna

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