Butrint in the mid-Byzantine period

A new interpretation

Bibliographic Data

ID11932375
AuthorsSolinda Kamani (corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume35
Issue2
Pages115-133
Publication date2011-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueByzantine and Modern Greek Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0307-0131 • E-ISSN: 1749-625X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1179/030701311x12906801091836
OpenAlexW2022648973
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited6

Butrint, on the southwest coast of Albania, has been subject to excavation since 1928, initiated and carried out by the Italian Archaeological Mission until 1940, and then from the late 1950s by the Albanian Institute of Archaeology. In the last fifteen years, under the direction of the Butrint Foundation, the Albanian Institute of Archaeology and the University of East Anglia, extensive excavations have taken place in the site. Recent excavations in the western stretch of the circuit wall in the Lower City of Butrint, known as the Western Defences, have revealed new and important evidence especially for early–mid Byzantine Butrint. These excavations are the focus of this paper which aims to cast more light on the chronology and history of the Western Defences in particular and that of Butrint in general. The first part of the paper discusses the evidence concerning the Western Defences’ late antique construction and its occupation up to the seventh century. The second part deals in turn with succeeding phases of occupation (from eighth to fifteenth century) and offers a new interpretation related to mid Byzantine Butrint

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Byzantine architecture · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Period (music · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Byzantine Studies and History · History · Philosophy

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