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EXPLORATIONS IN NOVAE (Pavlina Vladkova – pavlina_v@yahoo.com) Rooms in the western part of the extra-mural building situated in Sector VIII A were discovered. The rooms belonged to the second construction period dated from AD 186 (judging from a brick with the stamp of Consul Marulus) to AD 280 – 300. Room B measured 4.20 m by 6.50 m. Its walls were built in opus emplectum and were preserved up to 1.40 m in height. The floor had a hypocaust. The bricks of the columns had stamps of Legio I Italica. Room B1, 3.50 m by 6.60 m in size, was situated to the west of room B and had identical structure. The bricks of the columns of the hypocaust had stamps of Legio I Italica. Room V was situated to the south of rooms B and B1 and had a Г-like layout. The bricks of the columns of the hypocaust had stamps of Legio I Italica. Walls from the first construction period dated to c. AD 100 – 180 were discovered under the columns of the hypocaust. The finds included fragmentary building ceramics with stamps LEGIITALI, a lead ingot, fragments from a glass vessel and a copper one, fragmentary painted wall plaster, and two coins of Macrinus and Gordian III which dated the destruction of the hypocaust around the middle of the 3rd century AD. Eight bases of columns, belonging to a stylobate 19 m long, were discovered. The bases had plinths, 43 – 44 cm long and 30 – 40 cm high, while their cylindrical parts were 20 cm high and 36 – 37 cm in diameter. The intercolumnar space was 2.20 – 2.30 m long. A drain or a water conduit, related to the baths of the first construction period, was discovered to the west of the stylobate. The inner yard was synchronous to the pool, which was 3.80 m by 2 m in size and was situated to the south of the stylobate. Coins of Tacitus and Diocletian were found and they dated the destruction of the inner yard to AD 280 – 300. The necropolis related to the Ostrogoths of Theodoric the Great or any buildings synchronous to the Christian basilica that functioned in c. AD 500 – 590 were not documented in this part of the site.
- Pavlina Vladkova - Regional Museum of History – Veliko Tarnovo 
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