Butrint 6: Excavations on the Vrina Plain Volume 2: The Finds

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Butrint 6 describes the excavations carried out on the Vrina Plain by the Butrint Foundation on a wealthy Roman-Byzantine residential suburb. Volume 2 discusses the finds. Cover Book Title Copyright Contents Preface and acknowledgements Simon Greenslade and Richard Hodges INTRODUCTION 1. The history of the Vrina Plain : Simon Greenslade 2. The Roman land organisation of the Butrint hinterland: David Bescoby THE EXCAVATIONS 3. Early Imperial period: 1st and 2nd century AD – The archaeology and growth of a suburban settlement: Simon Greenslade 4. Late Imperial: the 3rd and 4th century AD – The archaeology of a channel-side domus: Simon Greenslade 5. Late 4th to late 5th century AD – The decline and reuse of the domus: Simon Greenslade 6. The 6th century AD – the religious house on the Plain: Simon Greenslade 7. 7th–13th century AD: a Byzantine central-place and its aftermath: Simon Greenslade 8. The Temple Mausoleum excavations: Simon Greenslade and Sarah Leppard with Oliver Gilkes 9. The Monument area: Sarah Leppard with Simon Greenslade THE MOSAICS 10. The mosaic pavements of the great peristyle domus: John Mitchell 11. The mosaic pavement of the basilica: John Mitchell INTERPRETATION AND DISCUSSION 12. The Roman suburb on the Vrina Plain and its issues: Simon Greenslade and Richard Hodges 13. From villa to church, c. AD 250–550?: Simon Greenslade and Richard Hodges 14. The aristocratic oikos on the Vrina Plain, Butrint c. AD 830–1200: Simon Greenslade and Richard Hodges Index Plate Section Bibliography Back Cover