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Excavation

  • Phoinike
  • Finiq
  • Phoinike
  • Albania
  • Vlorë County
  • Bashkia Finiq
  • Komuna e Finiqit

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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 Albanian-Italian archaeological mission has been working on the hill where the ruins of the ancient city of Phoinike are located and in the surrounding area for over 20 years. The ancient city of Phoinike is located on an elongated hill with a north-south direction in the Delvina basin, in Southwestern Albania, in the territory of the Municipality of Finiq. Over the years, the Albanian-Italian project has discovered a large number of monuments from the Hellenistic, Roman, Late Antique and Medieval periods. Research in the last two decades has focused on the agora, the fortification, the theater of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the two-peristyle dwelling, and the southern necropolis. In the 2021 campaign, excavations were focused on the western terraces of the agora area. The excavations revealed the Hellenistic terrace, on which the terrace of the early Roman imperial period and later that of the middle imperial period were built. The Justinian period terrace was built on this layer, where part of a sculpture was also found in the preparatory layer. The headless and limbless sculpture belongs to a female figure. The last phase of the terraces belongs to the medieval period.

  • Kriledjan Ҫipa - Regional Directorate of Cultural Heritage-Vlora 
  • Ulsi Tota - Institute of Archaeology 

Director

  • Belisa Muka - Instituti i Arkeologjisë Tiranë, Departamenti i Antikitetit (Albanian Institute of Archaeology, Department of Antiquity)
  • Giuseppe Lepore - Università degli Studi di Bologna, Dipartimento di Archeologia

Team

  • Enrico Giorgi - Università degli Studi di Bologna
  • Anna Gamberini - Università degli Studi di Bologna

Research Body

  • Instituti Arkeologjik Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology)
  • Università degli studi di Bologna

Funding Body

  • Instituti Arkeologjik Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology)
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI)

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