- Item
- AIAC_3140
- Name
- Roman bath-house at Vrina Plain
- Date Range
- 100 – 550
- Monuments
- Thermae
Seasons
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AIAC_3140 - Roman bath-house at Vrina Plain - 2008Archaeological excavations during 2008 season were focused in the north-eastern part of the Roman colonial centuriation of Butrint on the Vrina Plain. A Roman bath building which seems to have been part of a larger complex identified in 2003 was excavated. The research comprised the south western corner and an apsidal plunge bath of the bath building. The walls were of mortared tiles and stones construction bonded with pink mortar. The tiles, typical products of the area, were readily recognised by distinctive finger-swipe impression, in a relatively soft fired pink red fabric. A tile sub-floor (context 12) supported a series of pilae stacks with round tiles bonded with greenish clay, a technique used elsewhere in Butrint. A praefurnium was present in the eastern wall. Traces of grey veined marbles both veneer and opus sectile, suggested a good level of decoration. Few alterations seem to have been undertaken during the life of the bath-house, or at least few for which evidence survives, but the drain for the bathhouse (context 137) was replaced by a new drainpipe in ceramic tubuli (context 65). A further building was represented to the south by a single line of mortared masonry wall (context 67) seen only in the section, whose function and relationship with the bathhouse remains yet unclear. The material data from this year together with the evidences revealed in 2003, suggest that the bathhouse is a construction of the second century AD. Levels of rubble (context 5) and chunks of a fallen wall (context 13) seem to denote the collapse of the bathhouse in the fifth century or later.
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- Name
- Roman bath-house at Vrina Plain
- Year
- 2008
- Summary
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Archaeological excavations during 2008 season were focused in the north-eastern part of the Roman colonial centuriation of Butrint on the Vrina Plain. A Roman bath building which seems to have been part of a larger complex identified in 2003 was excavated. The research comprised the south western corner and an apsidal plunge bath of the bath building.
The walls were of mortared tiles and stones construction bonded with pink mortar. The tiles, typical products of the area, were readily recognised by distinctive finger-swipe impression, in a relatively soft fired pink red fabric. A tile sub-floor (context 12) supported a series of pilae stacks with round tiles bonded with greenish clay, a technique used elsewhere in Butrint. A praefurnium was present in the eastern wall. Traces of grey veined marbles both veneer and opus sectile, suggested a good level of decoration.
Few alterations seem to have been undertaken during the life of the bath-house, or at least few for which evidence survives, but the drain for the bathhouse (context 137) was replaced by a new drainpipe in ceramic tubuli (context 65).
A further building was represented to the south by a single line of mortared masonry wall (context 67) seen only in the section, whose function and relationship with the bathhouse remains yet unclear.
The material data from this year together with the evidences revealed in 2003, suggest that the bathhouse is a construction of the second century AD.
Levels of rubble (context 5) and chunks of a fallen wall (context 13) seem to denote the collapse of the bathhouse in the fifth century or later. -
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Gërmimet arkeologjike gjatë sezonit të vitit 2008, u fokusuan në pjesën lindore të lagjes romake të Butrintit në Fushën e Vrinës. Një banjë romake e identifikuar në vitin 2003, e cila mund të ketë qenë pjesë e një kompleksi të madh, u gërmua këtë sezon. Kërkimi përfshiu qoshen jugperëndimore së bashku me një vaskë absidale të banjës.
Muret e konstruksionit ishin me tulla dhe blloqe guri të lidhura me llaç në ngjyrë rozë. Tullat kishin ngjyrë rozë në të kuqe dhe në sipërfaqen e tyre ishte e dallueshme teknika e ngulitjes me gishta të valëzuar, prodhim tipik për zonën e Butrintit. Një dysheme me tulla (kontekst 12) mbante një radhë shtyllash rrethore (pilae) me tulla të lidhura me baltë në ngjyrë gri, teknikë e përdorur kudo në Butrint. Në murin lindor u zbulua praefurnium-i i banjës. Ndërkohë që mbetjet e mermerit me damar gri, të lëmuar dhe opus sectile, në hapësirat e monumentit tregojnë për një nivel të lartë dekorimi.
Të dhënat dëshmojnë se në banjë janë kryer modifikime gjatë kohës që ka qenë përdorur të tilla si, zëvëndësimi i kanalit kullues (kontekst 137) nga një tub kullimi prej qeramike tubuli (kontekst 65).
Një linjë muresh me llaç (kontekst 67) u zbulua në jug të banjës, e cila i përket me sa duket një ndërtese tjetër por që funksioni dhe lidhja e saj me banjën mbetet ende e paqartë.
Materiali i zbuluar këtë sezon gërmimesh së bashku me të dhënat e vitit 2003, sugjeron se banja është një ndërtim i shek. 2 m.Kr.
Shtresat e mbetjeve (kontekst 5) dhe murit të rrëzuar (kontekst 13) dëshmojnë për shembjen e banjës në shek. 5 ose më vonë. - Summary Author
- Oliver Gilkes
- Funding Body
- Packard Humanities Institute
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Butrint Foundation, 2008Butrint Foundation Annual Report 2008