Butrinto Cento, 1924–2024

Contents

La ricerca archeologica in una regione di frontiera. Bilanci e prospettive di ricerca – Enrico Giorgi

- L’antico Epiro tra età arcaica ed età ellenistica: storiografia e modelli politici -

Corcira e l’area epirota: il contributo delle fonti letterarie – Maria Intrieri

Re, koina, symmachia: poteri e strutture non cittadine in Epiro tra il IV secolo e la vigilia del regno di Pirro – Manuela Mari, Riccardo Candini

- Butrinto e il territorio circostante -

Centri fortificati, insediamenti rurali e organizzazione del territorio lungo la costa della Caonia fra IV e I secolo a.C. Il caso di Himara e Borsh – Kriledjan Çipa

Il Butrint Project e l’eredità di Enea. Dieci anni di ricerche archeologiche italo-albanesi  – Enrico Giorgi

Santi Quaranta revisited: establishing its archaeological phasing – Richard Hodges, John Mitchell, Nevila Molla

Ricerche a Çuka e Ajtoit – Julian Bogdani

- Ricerche archeologiche tra antico Epiro ed Illiria meridionale -

Double bronze axes in Albania – Adem Bunguri

Ricerche archeologiche nell’anfiteatro di Durrës. Recenti acquisizioni tra vecchi e nuovi dati – Sonia Antonelli, Chiara Casolino, Elvana Metalla

The Hellenistic theatre at Orikos – Saimir Shpuza

Ricerche archeologiche nella valle della Vjosa: dati preliminari dal comparto di Qesarat  – Eduard Shehi, Cristina C. Ancona, Taulant Rama, Custode Silvio Fioriello

Ricerche ad Antigonea e nella valle del Drino tra 2021 e 2025 – Roberto Perna, Sabina Veseli

Photike: history of research concerning a Roman city in Epirus – Björn Forsén, Georgia Pliakou

Late Classical and Hellenistic houses in Thesprotia. Some examples from Elea and Eleatis – Kassiani Lazari

Le ricerche archeologiche nell’insediamento fortificato di Kastrì sull’Acheronte (Epiro, GR) – Dimitris Roubis, Anthi Angeli, Francesca Sogliani

The cemeteries of Ambracia in the Archaic and Classical periods: spatial organization, burial practices and grave offerings – Anthi Angeli

Archaeological research in Molossia: the Upper Acheron Valley Project. Preliminary results of the 2024 field campaign – Varvara Papadopoulou, Luigi M. Caliò, Antonello Fino, Gian Michele Gerogiannis, Hara Kappa, Ioulia Katsadima, Eleni Vasileiou

The Bouleuterion of Dodona. New data from the recent excavation research project – Varvara Papadopoulou, Paraskevi Youni, Christos Kleitsas, Ypatia Faklari, Christos Tsakoumis, Melina Naka

- Sfide e prospettive nello studio della cultura materiale in antico Epiro -

Talking Ware: il contributo ceramologico allo studio dell’Albania in età ellenistica – Carlo De Mitri

What about pre-Hellenistic pottery? Looking for the 5th and 4th century BC material culture in Northern Epirus – Nadia Aleotti

Attic red-figure vases of the 4th century BC on the eastern Adriatic Sea routes: the cases of Butrint, Corcyra, and Phoinike – Giorgia Angelica Chatzidakis

Handmade pottery: a long-lasting tradition in central Epirus – Eleni Vasileiou

Riflessioni sulla cultura materiale a Butrinto. Nuovi contesti medievali dall'acropoli – Rebecca Pietralunga, Francesco Pagliani, Enrico Cirelli

Segmented mills in Sicily and Epirus: tracing the origin and distribution of a Hellenistic innovation – Tommi Turmo

Old findings and new readings: preliminary observations on an inscription found by D. Evangelidis in southern Albania in 1913 – Ioulia K. Katsadima

About the Author

Enrico Giorgi is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, where he teaches Landscape Archaeology and Urban Archaeology. He is the founder and director of the e-journal GROMA: Documenting Archaeology and coordinates the TolomeoLab for geo-archaeological analysis and documentation. Giorgi is president of the Centre for Adriatic Archaeology Studies and serves on several scientific committees and editorial boards. He has directed numerous research projects in Italy and abroad, including the Italian–Albanian Archaeological Mission at Butrint (Albania). He is also a member of the Butrint Research Group, part of the Butrint Management Foundation responsible for overseeing the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Butrint. His research focuses on developing projects and methodologies for the study and documentation of ancient landscapes and urban archaeology.