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Archaeologists, new discoveries in the ancient city of Antigone

2022-08-15 19:00:45Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

 

The ancient city of Antigone in the Drino Valley in Gjirokastër is being discovered every year by Albanian and foreign archaeological missions. This year archaeologists are confirming the existence of another city from the Byzantine period, which seems to have overlapped the ancient city that was burned by the Romans.

Archaeologists have also started excavations this year in the ancient city of Antigone, which stands on the hill that owns the Drino Valley in Gjirokastër.

Antigone was the most important city of the ancient world in the Drino Valley, says archeologist Sabina Veseli.

"It was the most important place in the Drino Valley at least during the Hellenistic period, a place that would later be occupied by other settlements. It is thought that Antigonea begins to fall and is suddenly destroyed. Of course, Antigonea is not only known for the Hellenistic period, but there is a reoccupation in the Byzantine period, which is also important," she says.

This year's mission is expected to bring new discoveries of monuments, says Mrs. Veseli.

"We await the discovery of new monuments that add to the map of the city and determine the phases of habitation in Antigone. Until now, a wide phase has been recognized from the 3rd century to the middle of the 2nd century BC, while during the excavations we have noticed phases that indicate two levels of habitation", she says.

While the Italian Archaeologist Roberto Perna says that even this year the mission is quite important to bring new data about the life of the two cities in different historical periods.

"We are doing this research first in the public area to understand how the city functioned and in a private area to verify historical data of the city," he says.

Mr. Perna says that the excavations are confirming that we are dealing with two cities, the one from the Hellenistic period and another new one from the Byzantine period. When life died out in Antigone we believe it moved to Adrianople, an important archaeological site, near Gjirokastra.

"All these are basic data that will serve for the management plan of the Archaeological Park of Antigone that we are carrying out with the Italian development cooperative", says Mr. Perrna.

New data from archaeologists is confirming that the city that was built by King Pyrrhus as a gift of love for his wife Antigone and burned by the Romans after 200 years was revived a few centuries later in the Byzantine period.

Anigoneja promises a lot, says archeologist Sabina Veseli. According to preliminary estimates, a small part of the city has been discovered so far, almost 15%.

"We think that we will return for many years to Antigone. We are only in the first two years of the return of the archaeological dig at Antigone. Antigonea has a lot to discover, both in the residential sector and in that of public life, in the agora of the city, in search of temples, cult objects that have not been discovered so far, why not also to recover the city in a turbulent period in the 4th century", says archeologist Sabina Veseli

Antigoneja is located only 14 kilometers from Gjirokastra, a Unesco city and is one of the largest settlements in the Drino Valley, which in about 42 km in length preserves ancient fortress cities, ancient theaters and numerous cultural monuments./ VOA


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