DOI Artikel:
Dyczek, Piotr: Forty years of excavations at Novae
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— New data on the Goth raids has been obtained.
— The development of architecture of the villa urbana type has been traced.
— Uniąue materials have been recovered conceming the development of me-
dieval settlement in the times of the First and Second Kingdom of Bułgaria.
— The most modem archaeological methods have been applied: aerial and
satellite photography, research on ancient DNA, Computer processing and virtu-
al reconstmction.
— Over 100 inscriptions, some of them quite uniąue, have been discovered;
they provide infonnation on the history of some of the buildings (principia) as
well as the entire camp, religious life, significant details from the history of the
Lower Danubian province.
— The villa of the legate of the legion has been discovered and its develop-
ment traced.
— The earliest phase in the development of the fortress in the scamnum tri-
bunorum area was investigated.
— One of the tribune houses was investigated in detail.
— The official wing of the principia with the chapel of the banners and the
administration and club rooms has been uncovered.
— Two hoards of coins were discovered in the command headąuarters
building.
— A few hundred pieces of bronze statues of gods and emperors have been
discovered, as well as a marble portrait of Caracalla.
— A “hoard” of vessels from the late 4th or First half of the 5th century has been
found in the principia.
For forty years Novae has engendered the interest and perhaps also the sym-
pathy of scholars. The outcome is an extensive bibliography, containing over
700 items at present. Not just interim reports and in-depth articles published chief-
ly in the annual Archeologia and in the Novensia, the annual of the Center of
Archaeological Research. Also important monographs, like the two corpuses of
inscriptions by J. Kolendo, V. Bożilova and L. Mrozewicz, S. Parnicki-Pudełko’s
book on the fortifications, T. Sarnowski’s book, the recent study of the terra sig-
illata from Moesia by A. Dimitrova-Milćeva and my own typology of amphorae
in polish and english version [see Dyczek, Kolendo, Sarnowski 2001].
Novae is also present at all the most important congresses devoted to the dif-
ferent aspects of limes and Classical archaeology. Publication plans include vol-
umes summarizing the results of investigations conducted in the particular sec-
tors. Studies are ongoing. Survey work in the vicinity of Novae has also been
undertaking.
Yet Novae is hardly just the studies and scholarly disputes and discussion. It
is foremost the people who are devoted to their passion.
Occasionally, we have been close to politics, having as guests ambassadors
and other eminent people. Gatherings are part of the atmosphere of these exca-
— New data on the Goth raids has been obtained.
— The development of architecture of the villa urbana type has been traced.
— Uniąue materials have been recovered conceming the development of me-
dieval settlement in the times of the First and Second Kingdom of Bułgaria.
— The most modem archaeological methods have been applied: aerial and
satellite photography, research on ancient DNA, Computer processing and virtu-
al reconstmction.
— Over 100 inscriptions, some of them quite uniąue, have been discovered;
they provide infonnation on the history of some of the buildings (principia) as
well as the entire camp, religious life, significant details from the history of the
Lower Danubian province.
— The villa of the legate of the legion has been discovered and its develop-
ment traced.
— The earliest phase in the development of the fortress in the scamnum tri-
bunorum area was investigated.
— One of the tribune houses was investigated in detail.
— The official wing of the principia with the chapel of the banners and the
administration and club rooms has been uncovered.
— Two hoards of coins were discovered in the command headąuarters
building.
— A few hundred pieces of bronze statues of gods and emperors have been
discovered, as well as a marble portrait of Caracalla.
— A “hoard” of vessels from the late 4th or First half of the 5th century has been
found in the principia.
For forty years Novae has engendered the interest and perhaps also the sym-
pathy of scholars. The outcome is an extensive bibliography, containing over
700 items at present. Not just interim reports and in-depth articles published chief-
ly in the annual Archeologia and in the Novensia, the annual of the Center of
Archaeological Research. Also important monographs, like the two corpuses of
inscriptions by J. Kolendo, V. Bożilova and L. Mrozewicz, S. Parnicki-Pudełko’s
book on the fortifications, T. Sarnowski’s book, the recent study of the terra sig-
illata from Moesia by A. Dimitrova-Milćeva and my own typology of amphorae
in polish and english version [see Dyczek, Kolendo, Sarnowski 2001].
Novae is also present at all the most important congresses devoted to the dif-
ferent aspects of limes and Classical archaeology. Publication plans include vol-
umes summarizing the results of investigations conducted in the particular sec-
tors. Studies are ongoing. Survey work in the vicinity of Novae has also been
undertaking.
Yet Novae is hardly just the studies and scholarly disputes and discussion. It
is foremost the people who are devoted to their passion.
Occasionally, we have been close to politics, having as guests ambassadors
and other eminent people. Gatherings are part of the atmosphere of these exca-