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Excavation

  • Temple of Heroon
  • Butrint
  • Buthrotum
  • Albania
  • Vlorë County
  • Bashkia Konispol
  • Xarre

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Credits

  • 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)

  • Further excavations were carried out in 2005 on the building previously identified as a temple in 2004. The structure was exposed and the western and southern sides were excavated. The temple proved to be in Italic style and in an ionic order. The mouldings of the lower stone plinth were preserved on the south side and, the opus caementicium core was faced with stone slabs held in position by iron and lead pins and clamps. A flight of steps on the extensively-robbed western side led up to a narrow pronaos between two antae walls. Fragments of the façade that were found in demolition debris, were decorated with grey veined white marble. In the cella were found fragments of marble decoration and remains of cocciopesto floor. A series of rectangular mortared tile boxes of varying size, (the largest almost 2m long), were evident on the cocciopesto surface. These tiles as well as the marble structures and bones found in 2004 suggested they were bases for sarcophagi. A single tile-covered infant grave was found outside the temple against its southern wall. The ceramics from deposits around the temple date to no later than the mid to late 3rd century A.D. Later reuse of the cella is suggested by the remains of a rough tile and earth floor with 4th century coins. The temple was extensively robbed during late antiquity and again in the 14th century, dated by the pottery found in the demolition deposits.

  • Andrew Crowson - ICAA-International Center for Albanian Archaeology / IWA-Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia 

Director

  • Ilir Gjipali - Instituti i Arkeologjisë Tiranë, Departamenti i Prehistorisë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology, Department of Prehistory)
  • Richard Hodges - ICAA-International Center for Albanian Archaeology / IWA-Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia

Team

  • Oliver Gilkes - ICAA-International Center for Albanian Archaeology / IWA-Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia

Research Body

  • IWA - Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia
  • Instituti Arkeologjik Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology)

Funding Body

  • Butrint Foundation
  • Packard Humanities Institute

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