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Author Bowden, William.

Title Butrint 3 : excavations at the Triconch Palace / William Bowden and Richard Hodges ; with contributions by Ylli Cerova [and others]
Published Oxford, U.K. ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books for the Butrint Foundation, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 382 pages :) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Butrint archaeological monographs ; 3
Butrint archaeological monographs ; 3.
Contents Cover; Preface; Butrint: Gërmimet në Pallatin e Trikonkës; 1. Introduction; 2. The domus and the Triconch Palace; 3. The 5th- to mid 7th-century occupation of the triconch area; 4. The medieval occupation of the triconch area; 5. The Merchant's House and the city wall (5th to 7th centuries); 6. The medieval occupation of the Merchant's House; 7. The mosaic pavements and painted walls of the domus; 8. The domus and Triconch Palace as aristocratic residences; 9. Urban change and the Triconch Palace site in the 5th to 7th centuries; 10. From Roman insula to medieval quarter?; 11. Conclusion
Summary This comprehensive and well-illustrated volume describes the excavations of the so-called Triconch Palace, which occupied a large sector of the Adriatic port of Butrint. In doing so it contributes to our changing understanding of the development of Roman towns in the Mediterranean and reveals the rhythms of Butrint and its Mediterranean connections. The book traces the transformations that occurred in a large channel-side area of Butrint over 1,500 years from the 2nd century AD onwards, from the development an elite domus of palatial scale through to the final abandonment of the area in the Venetian period. This is accompanied by an examination of the elaborate mosaic decoration of the domus and its use in the articulation of the building, together with in-depth discussion of the Triconch Palace in the wider context of domestic architecture in the late antique and early medieval periods. --Book Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Albania -- Butrint
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Byzantine antiquities
Classical antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
SUBJECT Triconch Palace Site (Butrint, Albania) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011003641
Butrint (Albania) -- Antiquities, Roman
Butrint (Albania) -- Antiquities, Byzantine
Subject Albania -- Butrint
Albania -- Butrint -- Triconch Palace Site
Form Electronic book
Author Hodges, Richard.
Cerova, Ylli
LC no. 2011028471
ISBN 9781842176474
1842176471
Other Titles Butrint three