Abstract
author examines in detail this site in the South of modern Serbia, on the line lof the ancient road linking Naissus to Scupi and Thessaloniki. He begins by mentioning the descriptions of the first visitors, and then discusses the (partial) excavations of 1969/70, cammenting on their results. There is a double fortress, with an upper and lower city. The upper city contains a basilican church with three aisles and an apse, showing repairs in the pavement and remains of the chancel, which indicate two phases of construction. An underground ristern covered with cross-vaults (of a type found in Constantinople) is the second major building in the upper city. The technique of construction and the archaeological data establish (as for the church) a date in the 6th century, and more precisely during the reign of Justinian. At the present time, no trace of a residential quarter has been found; but the settlement seems not to have been dense. The exact role of the two zones and their relative chronology have no...
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