The final season of excavations at the temple of Spitalla served to help explain the last unexcavated area of the temple plan -the north western corner of the cella, which is located close to a military bunker.
The cella was constructed using the same limestone blocks and building techniques as the temple’s other foundations. However owing to deep ploughing and other modern interventions it was impossible to trace the inner structures of the temple. A trial trench was pursued to the southern edge of the roof tile scatter, where the receding ground marks the southern line of the temple ruins in the Hellenistic period.
The ceramic finds strengthen the idea that this temple, situated as it is in the chora of Durrës, belongs to the Greek extra-urban type of temple, and was built in the Archaic period. This could have been a sanctuary with tutelage deities (still undetermined) which would have begun its existence as a place of contact and exchange between the earliest Greek colonists of Durrës and the local population.
Following the excavation, the temple was fully backfilled in order to protect it.