Overview

Butrint 6 describes the excavations carried out on the Vrina Plain by the Butrint Foundation from 2002–2007. Lying just to the south of the ancient port city of Butrint, these excavations have revealed a 1,300 year long story of a changing community that began in the 1st century AD, one which not only played its part in shaping the city of Butrint but also in how the city interacted and at times reacted to the changing political, economic and cultural situations occurring across the Mediterranean World over this period. Volume I discusses the results from the excavations, tracing the development of the area from an early Roman bridgehead suburb during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD to a major 3rd-century domus, one of the largest of its kind in the province of Epirus Vetus, its transformation into a new residential centre dominated by a Christian basilica in Late Antiquity, to becoming the home of a Byzantine archon during the 9th and 10th centuries when it was, in all but name, Butrint, and its subsequent uses following its abandonment due to the rising water table. This is followed by a description of the domus mosaics and a detailed examination of the basilica mosaics, analysing the imagery, meaning and context of this intricate and detailed pavement, together with discussions of the Vrina Plain and its place within the story of Butrint and the wider Mediterranean World during the Roman and Byzantine periods.

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Author:   Simon Greenslade
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
ISBN:  

9781789258790

ISBN 10:   1789258790
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   05 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements Simon Greenslade and Richard Hodges INTRODUCTION 1. The history of the Vrina Plain Simon Greenslade 2. The Roman land organisation of the Butrint hinterland David Bescoby THE EXCAVATIONS 3. Early Imperial period: 1st and 2nd century AD – The archaeology and growth of a suburban settlement Simon Greenslade 4. Late Imperial: the 3rd and 4th century AD – The archaeology of a channel-side domus Simon Greenslade 5. Late 4th to late 5th century AD – The decline and reuse of the domus Simon Greenslade 6. The 6th century AD – the religious house on the Plain Simon Greenslade 7. 7th–13th century AD: a Byzantine central-place and its aftermath Simon Greenslade 8. The Temple Mausoleum excavations Simon Greenslade and Sarah Leppard with Oliver Gilkes 9. The Monument area Sarah Leppard with Simon Greenslade THE MOSAICS 10. The mosaic pavements of the great peristyle domus John Mitchell 11. The mosaic pavement of the basilica John Mitchell INTERPRETATION AND DISCUSSION 12. The Roman suburb on the Vrina Plain and its issues Simon Greenslade and Richard Hodges 13. From villa to church, c. AD 250–550? Simon Greenslade and Richard Hodges 14. The aristocratic oikos on the Vrina Plain, Butrint c. AD 830–1200 Simon Greenslade and Richard Hodges Bibliography Index Plates

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"""Greenslade and his team have produced an exemplary archaeological monograph, lucidly written and clearly structured. The diverse materials uncovered during the excavations will no doubt ensure a wide scholarly audience. Specialists will understandably be tempted to mine the text for those passages pertinent to their own research, be that Roman centuriation or Byzantine sigillography.""-- ""Bryn Mawr Classical Review"""

Greenslade and his team have produced an exemplary archaeological monograph, lucidly written and clearly structured. The diverse materials uncovered during the excavations will no doubt ensure a wide scholarly audience. Specialists will understandably be tempted to mine the text for those passages pertinent to their own research, be that Roman centuriation or Byzantine sigillography. -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Author Information

Simon Greenslade is a freelance archaeologist with over twenty-five years of experience working on a wide variety of sites in the United Kingdom, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

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