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

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Chronology

  • 300 AD - 600 AD

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    • ODESSOS (Alexander Minchev – aleksander.minchev@gmail.com, Valeri Yotov) Part of a large building constructed in _opus mixtum_ was discovered. It had two entrances from the east. Sector of the northern wall 1 m wide was discovered. It had three pilasters from the inner side, two of them supporting an arched niche. A base of a square pillar that supported the second floor was situated against the second pilaster. A sector of the eastern wall with a pliaster that shaped the northeastern entrance was discovered. The finds dated to the 4th – 6th centuries AD an included sherds from amphorae, one of them of the Gaza Type, fragments from bricks, tegulae and imbrices, a fragment of a marble late Corinthian capital, fragments from marble tiles from floor, two bronze coins. The building was situated close to the ancient harbor of Odessos and was a warehouse or a shop.
    • 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.

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