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Excavation

  • Amphitheater of Durrës
  • Durrës
  • Durrachium

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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)

    • During 2019, in addition to the expansion of the sector α, excavations were also focused on a new sector, which was named sector β. In the first sector, the filling of the well was excavated. During the excavation the presence of many ceramic materials as well as some metal objects was noted. Due to the obstacles caused by its presence in the progress of the excavation, a part of the well was dismantled. All the material from the emptying of the well is thought to belong to the Ottoman period. As for the building discovered during the 2018 excavations, this year’s excavation reveals a restructuring of this building throughout the XV – XVI century. For this reason we have the construction of a wall in the South-Western part that reduced this structure. The wall is built of stone blocks of various sizes bound with abundant lime mortar. Another intervention is related to the opening of an entrance on the north side of the building, evidenced by the presence of a brick threshold. In sector β, was discovered a wall that divide gallery VIII and IX, as well as a part of the entrance of the gallery VII excavated in the years 2000. The dividing wall ran North-West/South-East and in terms of construction technique it was the same as the other walls discovered in this sector. The material recovered during the excavation was numerous, but of course ceramics dominated, whereas metal objects and other materials were less present. Based on the reading of the stratigraphy, but also on the dating of the material from the excavation, we can say that during the last period of the XVth century and until the XVIth and XVIIth centuries this area of the amphitheater has undergone an important restructuring.

    • Kriledjan Ҫipa - Regional Directorate of Cultural Heritage-Vlora 
    • Ulsi Tota - Institute of Archaeology 

    Director

    • Elvana Metalla - Instituti i Arkeologjisë Tiranë, Departamenti i Antikitetit të Vonë dhe Mesjetës së Hershme (Albanian Institute of Archaeology, Department of Late Antiquity and Early Medieval)
    • Sonia Antonelli- Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti

    Team

    • Chiara Casolino- Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti.
    • Marco Moderato Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti

    Research Body

    • Instituti Arkeologjik Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology)
    • Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara

    Funding Body

    • Instituti Arkeologjik Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology)
    • Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI)

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