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Excavation

  • Odessos
  • Varna
  • Odessos
  • Bulgaria
  • Varna
  • Varna

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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)

  • ODESSOS (Alexander Minchev – aleksander.minchev@gmail.com, Valeri Yotov, Elina Mircheva) In 2019, the excavations of the site launched in 2016 were resumed. Walls built in opus mixtum and 75 – 85 cm wide, belonging to two buildings, were discovered to the north of the Late Antique thermae that were partly excavated in 2019. The first building had an entrance to the south and two of its rooms were partly excavated. One room was partly excavated in the second building as well. A water-conduit adjoined its western wall and the terracotta pipes were arranged over a foundation of bricks and covered with a mantle of uneven stones bonded with mortar. The large building, partly excavated in 2016, was situated to the west of the second building. The finds from the excavations included sherds, including from amphorae and their lids, imported red-gloss vessels of the so-called Phocaean pottery produced mostly in Anatolia (one sherd from a bowl showed a stamped cross on the bottom), sherds from North African red-slip vessels with stamped decoration, fragments from glass vessels (mostly cups) and window glass, an Anatolian terracotta lamp, exagium with incised letter N, a bronze finger-ring, an anthropomorphic bronze clasp from a toiletries box and copper coins. Both buildings dated to the end of the 4th – beginning of the 7th centuries AD.

  • Alexander Minchev - Regional Museum of History – Varna 
  • Valeri Yotov - Regional Museum of History – Varna 
  • Elina Mircheva - Regional Museum of History – Varna 

Director

  • Alexander Minchev - Regional Museum of History – Varna
  • Elina Mircheva - Regional Museum of History – Varna
  • Valeri Yotov - Regional Museum of History – Varna

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Research Body

  • Regional Museum of History - Varna

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