The Archaeology of the Late Roman City of Zaldapa: The Status Quaestionis in 2016 (with an Appendix on Seasons 2017–2019)
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Dominic Moreau et al., « The Archaeology of the Late Roman City of Zaldapa: The Status Quaestionis in 2016 (with an Appendix on Seasons 2017–2019) », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10670/1.1145e3...
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The site currently identified as Zaldapa is the largest fortified Romano-Byzantine city – 25 ha intra muros – in the hinterland of present-day Dobrudja and North-eastern Bulgaria. Considering the size of Zaldapa, it is curious that it appears in only seven written sources, all from the sixth to eleventh centuries AD. Moreover, the site has been little explored in the last hundred years. Since 2014, however, a Bulgarian team has decided to resume field-work, which has led to the discovery of a new Christian basilica, larger than those previously known. Following that important discovery, the Bulgarian team invited French and Canadian scholars to visit them on the site, in order to evaluate its overall potential and to set up an international mission. During the summer of 2015, excavations in the sanctuary of Basilica ‘No 3’ allowed the release of a crypt and other interesting unknown structures. This paper describes the state of the art up to the end of the 2016 field season, as presented at the International Congress of Byzantine Studies by the above-mentioned French and Canadian scholars, together with the Bulgarian teams, as their first joint contribution. An appendix is added to this work, with the goal of briefly reporting the explorations up to 2019, as well as the beginning of the International Archaeological Mission at Zaldapa.
