"The Doric temple in Shtyllas near Apollonia (Albania). Building research - archaeological reassessment - Preservation - Visualisation".

The central aim of the research project is to clarify essential questions about the architecture of the temple and its critical classification in the architectural history. To this end, the ground plan and structure of the temple's substructure will be clarified through archaeological explorations. Building elements and fragments of the rising architecture, which can be assumed with certainty to have been recovered in the temple area and in the excavation sections, are to be documented and evaluated. This would be the first time that one of Apollonia's temple buildings has been scientifically researched, and the results could form an important point of reference for the classification of the city's other, hitherto almost unexplored monumental buildings from that period.
Already in the preliminary investigations, some fundamental questions about the ground plan of the temple could be clarified or at least hypotheses about it could be substantiated (see above). These hypotheses are to be confirmed by further, targeted sondages. In addition, there are still unanswered questions about the exact dating, the type of naos and its integration into the peristasis. As for the general question of a possible predecessor building, there are no indications so far (e.g. through building remains or older finds).
In addition to the dating and classification of the temple, the archaeological finds should provide information on the period of use of the temple and on cult practices.

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