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Excavation

  • Pliska - Palace
  • Pliska
  • Pliska
  • Bulgaria
  • Shumen
  • Novi Pazar

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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)

  • PLISKA (Yanko Dimitrov – yanko_aim@mail.bg, Stanislav Ivanov) Sector I was situated between the western wall of the Citadel and the Baths located to the south of the Large Cistern, to the north of Room G of the T-like building consisting of parallel rooms arranged in a line and to the south of the Palatial Building constructed over the Large Cistern. Pavements, terracotta water-conduits and drains were explored along the fortification wall of the Citadel. Postholes of a ramshackle building were documented in the central part of the sector and a domestic oven was discovered. Trenches for timber fences, terracotta water-conduits, drains, shafts and postholes were also discovered. A lead seal of the Bulgarian King Simeon I (AD 893 – 927) and a gilded bronze point of a belt with floral decoration of the 9th century AD were found. Sector II covered the northwestern part of the Citadel, and was situated between the Palatial Cross-dome Church, the Circular Cistern, the Baths with two rooms and the Baths with three rooms. Drains and water-conduits were discovered. Lead water-conduit No. 9 was providing water for the cistern. Postholes, 1 – 1.40 m in diameter and 1.10 – 2.40 m in depth, were discovered. Sector III covered the middle part of the corridor between the eastern and the western wings of the Small Palace. Stone slabs from a pavement were dismantled and a layer with charcoal and fragmentary mortar was discovered below. The layout of an underground corridor, 1 m wide and located under the Small Palace, was documented. Postholes were explored. Sector IV covered the northern room in the eastern wing of the Small Palace. Stone slabs from a pavement were dismantled. Postholes were discovered, 1.40 – 1.60 m in diameter and 1.70 – 2.20 m in depth. Sector V covered the northeastern part of the Citadel. Two sunken-floored houses were explored, dated with pottery and coins to AD 975 – 1050. The level of the 9th century AD was reached and trenches for timber fences and postholes for buildings were documented.

  • Yanko Dimitrov - Shumen Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum 
  • Stanislav Ivanov - Shumen Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum 

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  • Shumen Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum

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