2015 & 2016

2015 witnessed the beginning of the Butrint Project, thanks to the collaboration between the University of Bologna, the Archaeological Institute of Tirana and the National park of Butrint. The team focused its work on the terrace upstream of the Theater, where the small Temple dedicated to Asclepius was built in the Hellenistic period and then remodelled many times during the Roman one. Its remains have been the subject of an accurate campaign of study, topographic survey and analysis of the state of conservation.

These data allowed both to acquire a new documentation of the remains, on the basis of photogrammetric surveys and Laser Scanner methodology.

In the same year, the Photographic Archive of the Mission was expanded with the acquisition of numerous historical pictures depicting the years of the first Italian archaeological missions (1930s-1940s).

In 2016, the research area was extended to the the Theater part of the Sanctuary of Asclepius. 

Team: Sandro De Maria, Enrico Giorgi, Belisa Muka, Michele Silani, Michele Ricciardone, Enrico Cirelli, Francesco Belfiori