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This volume brings together unpublished Italian and Albanian archaeological reports and new archaeological studies from recent fieldwork that throw new light on the archaeology and history of the Pavllas River Valley, the Mediterranean alluvial plain in the territory of Butrint, ancient Buthrotum, in southwestern Albania. It gives prominence for the first time to two important sites, Kalivo and Çuka e Aitoit, which are here reinterpreted and shown to have played major roles in the early history of Butrint as it evolved in the later first millennium BC to emerge as the key city of Chaonia in Epirus. Butrint 7 also presents the full excavation report of the Late Bronze Age and Hellenistic fortified site of Mursi, in addition to other Butrint Foundation surveys and excavations in the hinterland of Butrint, including the Roman villa maritima at Diaporit, the villa suburbana on the Vrina Plain, and Roman sites on Alinura Bay and at the Customs House, as well as new surveys of the early modern Triangular Fortress and a survey to locate the lost Venetian village of Zarópulo. The volume also features a new study of the Hellenistic bronze statuette of Pan found on Mount Mile and of his sanctuary at Butrint. The volume concludes with a comprehensive reassessment of the Pavllas River Valley in relation to Butrint, from the Palaeolithic to the modern eras, examining how dominion, territory, environment and the ‘corrupting sea’ reshaped Butrint and its fluvial corridor diachronically and particularly brought profound territorial, economic and social alterations under the Roman Empire.

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Author:   David R Hernandez ,  Richard Hodges
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Volume:   7
ISBN:  

9781789254334

ISBN 10:   1789254337
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   15 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Language:   English, Italian

Table of Contents

Abbreviations Introduction and Acknowledgments - David Hernandez and Richard Hodges Part I. Italian and Albanian Surveys and Excavations 1. A Colonial Indifference to Butrint, 1923-1924. S. S. Clarke's 'Survey' of the Hinterland of Buthrotum - Richard Hodges 2. The History of Archaeological Investigations at Kalivo and Cuka e Aitoit - Oliver J. Gilkes 3. L'acropoli di Calivo (with an appendix of preliminary notes) - Luigi Maria Ugolini (transcribed and edited by Oliver J. Gilkes) 4. Short Introduction to Ugolini's and Islami's Surveys and Excavations at Cuka e Aitoit (Monte Aetos) - Oliver J. Gilkes 5. L'acropoli di Monte Aetos (Cuka e Aitoit): Il lato nord (cinta delle mura) - Luigi Maria Ugolini 6. Monte Aetos (Cuka e Aitoit): Scavi - Luigi MariaUgolini 7. La cinta medioevale di Monte Aetos (Cuka e Aitoit) - Luigi Maria Ugolini 8. Monte Aetos (Cuka e Aitoit): Necropoli - Luigi Maria Ugolini 9. I reperti da Monte Aetos - The Finds from Cuka e Aitoit - Luigi Maria Ugolini, with contributions by Karen Francis, Oliver J. Gilkes, David Hernandez, and Belisa Muka 10. Giornale di scavo del Monte Aetos (Cuka e Aitoit), 1929 - Alfredo Nuccitelli 11. Cuka e Aitoit: The 1979 Survey and Excavations - Selim Islami (with an introductory preface by Oliver J. Gilkes) Part II. Butrint Foundation Surveys and Excavations 12. The Perimeter Walls of Kalivo: Electronic Survey, 2001, by Andrew Crowson 13. Excavations at Kalivo, 2004, by Andrew Crowson (with an appendix by Paul Reynolds and Nadia Aleotti) 14. A Roman and Venetian Site at Alinura Bay, by Jose C. Carvajal Lopez 15. A Possible Roman Villa at the Customs House, by Andrew Crowson 16. Trial Excavations at the Triangular Fortress, 2014, by Ilir Parangoni, Oliver J. Gilkes and David Bescoby 17. The Eastern Villa Suburbana and Its Pars Rustica on the Vrina Plain - Oliver J. Gilkes, Emily Glass, Valbona Hysa, Ilir Parangoni and Paul Reynolds (with appendices by Oliver J. Gilkes and Alessandra Pecci & Miguel Angel Cau Ontiveros) 18. The Shen Dimitri Survey, 2015: The Rediscovery of Zaropulo - Ilir Parangoni 19. The Diaporit Villa in Context - William Bowden and Luan Perzhita 20. The Late Bronze Age and Hellenistic Fortified Site at Mursi, Albania - David Hernandez 21. The Late Bronze Age Pottery from Mursi, Albania - Sarah Lima 22. The Hellenistic Pottery from Mursi, Albania - Nadia Aleotti 23. The Coins from Mursi, Albania: The Discovery of a New Chaonian Issue - William S. Bubelis and Elena Baldi 24. Pan at Butrint - David Hernandez, Richard Hodges, Selim Islami and Louise Schofield Conclusion 25. Beyond Butrint: Dominion, Territory, Environment and the Corrupting Sea - David Hernandez and Richard Hodges Appendix Dhimosten Budina (1930-2004) - 'Architect' of the Butrint Archaeological Park - Oliver J. Gilkes and Richard Hodges Bibliography Index Plates

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Richard Hodges is a leading international scholar in provincial Roman archaeology. Heis currently President of the American University in Rome. And formerly the Director ofthe British School at Rome. He led the project to create a National Park with Butrint asthe scientific centre and the successful bid to have it designated a UNESCO WorldHeritage Site and leads up the publication programme for the Butrint Foundation

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