Volume 3 - Papers of the American Research Center in Sofia

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Maps

PREHISTORY

Malgorzata Grgbska-Kidow, Ilia Kulov, John Gorczyck

Cultural Traditions from the Prehistoric Settlement at Damianitsa,

Osmanitsa, Municipality of Sandanski

Appendix 1

John Gorczyk

A Faunal Analysis of the Osteological Data from Damianitsa-Osmanica, Municipality of Sandanski

Ilia Kulov

Bronze and Early Iron Age Settlements from

the Sandanski Municipality, Southwest Bulgaria

Stefan Alexandrov

The Bishop’s Basilica Before the Basilica

Stoiko Shatov, Velichka Kostova

Preliminary Analysis of the Pottery from the Rescue Excavations in the Atrium of the Episcopal Basilica at Sandanski

ROMAN PARTHICOPOLIS AND ITS TERRITORY

Angelos Zannis

Society, Religion and Culture in the Middle Strymon Valley

Georgi Mitrev

The Data for Paroecopolis/Parthicopolis and the Problem on the Name of the Ancient Town at Sandanski

Hristina Tsoneva, Vladimir Petkov

The Emergence and Development of the Antique City

at Present-Day Sandanski (1st- 3rd c. AD)

Dan Dana

Inscriptions de la vallee Du Moyen

Strymon recemment publiees: quelques corrections -

Ilian Boyanov

Veterans and Society in the Middle Strymon Valley

Philip Kolev

The Road Communications in the Middle Strymon Valley

During the Roman and Late Antique Periods

Svetla Petrova

Quarries and Workshops in the Territory of Parthicopolis (1st - 6th c. AD)

Emil Nankov

Sekoma: A Volume Standard for Liquids from Parthicopolis

Marina Kolev a, Vladimir Petkov

Towards the Roman Provincial Art: A Female Statue from Sandanski

Rumjana Milcheva

Representations of Roman Soldiers on Funerary Stelae

from the Middle Strymon Valley

EARLY CHRISTIAN PARTHICOPOLIS AND MEDIEVAL SVETIVRACH

Vladimir Petkov

History of the Archaeological Research

at the Episcopal Basilica in Sandanski (1989 - 2015)

Andreas Piilz

Some Considerations on the Relief Panels from the Bishop’s Basilica (Basilica Nr. 4) in Sandanski, Bulgaria

Zdravko Dimitrov, Vladimir Petkov

Analysis of the Architectural Details and Decoration

in the “Peristyle Courtyard” Complex Near the Bishop’s Basilica

in the Town of Sandanski

ivo Topalilov, Vladimir Petkov

New Data on the Bishop’s Complex at Parthicopolis

Vania Popova

Late Antique Glass Workshop in Parthicopolis

Alexander Sultanov, Kitan Kitanov

Petrographic and Mineralogical Analyses of the Frescoes

of an Early Christian Tomb in Sandanski

Written and Archaeological Data

Tsvetana Komitova

A Marble Relief of a Saint from the Archaeological Museum in Sandanski

COINS AND COIN CIRCULATION IN PARTHICOPOLIS AND ITS TERRITORY

Nina Hadzhieva, Marina Doychinova

Silver Coins from Sandanski Region and Its Territory (6th-4th c. BC)

Vladimir Petkov, Sotir Ivanov, Ilya Prokopov

Numismatic Collection of the Archaeological Museum - Sandanski.

Bronze Greek, Macedonian, Roman Republican, Imperial and

Provincial Coins of the 4th c. BC until the Middle of the 1st c. AD

Svetoslava Filipova, Vladimir Petkov

Coin Circulation in Sandanski in the Period 2nd - 5th c. AD

Margarita Andonova

Early Byzantine Collective Coin Find from

the Village of Velyushets, Strumyani Municipality

PARTHICOPOLIS AND ITS NEIGHBORS

Dragomir Garbov

Territorium Parthicopolitanum et Tristolense:

Reconstructing the Administrative Landscape of Northern Sintica

Emil Nankov, Alexandrina Tsoneva

Some Observations on the Pergamene Applique Ware from Heraclea Sintica....

Emil Nankov, Alexandrina Tsoneva

Addenda and Corrigenda to the “Black-Slipped” Pottery from Heraclea Sintica

Vane P. Sekulov

Crveno Pole and Its Relations with Cities in

the Middle Strymon Valley in the Roman and Early Byzantine Periods