Le Fortificazioni di Butrinto: nuove acquisizioni topografiche e stratigrafiche

The aim of this communication is to share the most recent aquisitions of the italo-albanian mission in Butrint national park led by University of Bologna and the Institute of Archaeology of Tirana. The study intended to collect data from the early phase of the fortification of the city, through all their life. The research began with a critical review of all the published data from the first half of the past century in order to have a tidy collection of all the excavation involving the city’s walls. The work focused then on the study of the different building phases that, with the analisys on the wall’s mortar, led to a first chronological reconstruction. The attention will be focused on the wall section between the Lion and Scea Gates, the most preserved and rich in recognizable building actions. The topographical survey of this section, carried out with 3D Laser scanning technology has resulted in the production of ortophoto and front elevation usefull to the study of vertical stratigraphy and the alteration and degradation phenomena. In addition to this data will be shown the one coming from the stratigraphical dig led during the last research campaign (2018). In the section between the Forum and Tower Gate were led two digs that interested the emplekton of the ellenistic walls that added stratigraphical data to the research.