Depuis 2014, une équipe bulgare a, toutefois, décidé de reprendre le travail sur le terrain, ce qui a mené à la découverte d’une nouvelle basilique chrétienne, plus grande que celles connues jusqu’alors. De plus, le site a été peu exploré dans les cent dernières années. Compte tenu de la taille de Zaldapa, il est curieux qu'elle ne soit mentionnée que dans sept sources écrites, qui sont toutes des VIe-XIe siècles. Le site actuellement identifié comme Zaldapa est la plus grande ville romano-byzantine fortifiée – 25 ha intra-muros – de l'arrière-pays des actuelles Dobroudja et Bulgarie du Nord-Est. An appendix is added to this work, with the goal of briefly reporting the explorations up to 2019, as well as the beginning of the International Archaeological Mission at Zaldapa. This paper describes the state of the art up to the end of the 2016 field season, as presented at the International Congress of Byzantine Studies by the above-mentioned French and Canadian scholars, together with the Bulgarian teams, as their first joint contribution. During the summer of 2015, excavations in the choir of Basilica ‘No 3’ allowed the release of a crypt and other interesting unknown structures. Following that important discovery, the Bulgarian team invited French and Canadian scholars to visit them on the site, in order to evaluate its overall potential and to set up an international mission. Since 2014, however, a Bulgarian team has decided to resume field-work, which has led to the discovery of a new Christian basilica, larger than those previously known. Moreover, the site has been little explored in the last hundred years. Considering the size of Zaldapa, it is curious that it appears in only seven written sources, all from the sixth to eleventh centuries AD. The site currently identified as Zaldapa is the largest fortified Romano-Byzantine city – 25 ha intra muros – in the hinterland of present-day Dobrudja and North-eastern Bulgaria. Selected Papers from the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Belgrade, 22–27 August 2016) – In memoriam Claudiae Barsanti, BAR Publishing, Oxford (BAR International Series, 2973), 2020, p. Snively, Alessandra Guiglia, Isabella Baldini, Ljubomir Milanović, Ivana Popović, Nicolas Beaudry and Orsolya Heinrich-Tamáska (eds), Archaeology of a World of Changes: Late Roman and Early Byzantine Architecture, Sculpture and Landscapes. Snively, Alessandra Guiglia, Isabella Baldini, Ljubomir Milanović, Iva.
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