The second season of archaeological excavations in the Episcopal Centre in Salona east of the Porta Caesarea

Sa？etak This paper contains a report on the continuation of research conducted in 2017 in the area east of the old city gate in Salona (Porta Caesarea), and north of the main city gate (Via Principalis). As in 2016, the excavations were conducted as a collaboration between the Archaeological Museum in Split and the History Department of the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities in Split. The existing trench was expanded westward, toward the gate, and northward. The continuation of stacked stone wall SJ 002 which extends in a northward arc was uncovered. A channel was also uncovered over a length of 9 meters in a 4.5 meter-wide street that runs in the north-south direction and east of the northern tower of the city gate connected to the Via Principalis. The western part of trench SJ 012 was excavated, and as in the preceding year, a very high quantity of movable pottery finds dated between the end of the 2nd century BC and the mid-1st century AD was discovered. In the north-eastern corner of the trench, the northern extension of wall SJ 008 built in the 1st century AD was excavated. It is made of regular dressed stones bonded with plaster. Channel SJ 010 extends parallel to it, and one more wall running in an east-west direction was discovered to its east. In this part of the trench, the bedrock has an abrupt downward grade