Butrint 3
Subtitle: excavations at the Triconch Palace
By: William Bowden and Richard Hodges ; with contributions by Ylli Cerova ... [et al.].
Contributors: Hodges, Richard
Series: Butrint archaeological monographs -- 3; Butrint archaeological monographs -- 3.
Publisher: Oxbow Books for the Butrint Foundation
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781842179802
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology); Roman Antiquities; Byzantine Antiquities
Other titles: Butrint three
Description: "This engaging and well-illustrated volume describes the excavations of a large urban sector, the so-called Triconch Palace, of the Adriatic seaport of Butrint. In so doing it adds to the new paradigm for the development of Roman towns in the Mediterranean. The book traces the changing nature of this rich and varied area - from 2nd-century Roman townhouses, to a 4th-century elite domus, to a Mid Byzantine trading area to late medieval allotments - and reveals the rhythms of Butrint and its Mediterranean connections. This is accompanied by discussions of the elaborate mosaic decoration of the palatial phase and their articulation of elite living, as well as of in-depth discussions of the implications of elite and domestic architecture in late antiquity and the Mid Byzantine period"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.