Po redaktohet Scupi (paragraf)

==Excavations==
[[File:Skupi sarcophagus.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Pillar capital in Scupi.]]
The excavations on the archaeological site started in the period between the two World Wars. [[Radoslav Gruić]] discovered the early Christian basilica in 1925 and the most important discovery was made by [[Nikola Vulić]], a Serbian archeologist, when he found the ancient [[Macedonian theatre from Roman occupation of Macedonia(structure)|Macedonian theater]]. Nikola Vulić was the archeologist that published most about Scupi.
<br>Excavations on the site were done in 1959–61 by Duje Rendić-Miočević that were published in 1981 and by [[Ivan Mikulčić]] published in 1971 and 1973.

The Museum of the City of Skopje began new excavation and conservation work on the site from 1966 led by [[Milutin Garašanin]]. From 1980 the person responsible for the excavation and conservation work on the site is [[Dušanka Koraćević]].

In July 2008, a well-preserved statue of the Roman goddess [[Venus (god)|Venus]] was found. The statue measures {{convert|1.7|m|ft}} in height.<ref>[http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/671 Balkan Travellers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209143601/http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/671 |date=2012-02-09 }}</ref>

The [[Illyrians|Illyrian]] tribe [[Albanoi]] is attested in an ancient funeral inscription in Scupi<ref>[https://books.google.no/books?id=z0lmAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y Dragojević-Josifovska 1982], p. 32</ref> It was excavated in 1931 by Nikola Vulić and its text was curated and published in 1982 by [[Borka Dragojević-Josifovska]]. The inscription in Latin reads "POSIS MESTYLU F[ILIUS] FL[AVIA] DELVS MVCATI F[ILIA] DOM[O] ALBANOP[OLI] IPSA DELVS" ("Posis Mestylu, son of Flavia, daughter of Delus Mucati, who comes from Albanopolis"). It dates to the end of the 1st century CE and the beginning of the 2nd century CE. Dragojević-Josifovska added two lines to the existing reading: VIVA P(OSUIT) SIBI/ ET VIRO SUO. Delus Mucati is an Illyrian name and his home region was Albanopolis (domo Albanopoli). Dragojević-Josifovska proposed that like others he had settled in Macedonia from southern Illyria.<ref>[https://books.google.no/books?id=z0lmAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y Dragojević-Josifovska 1982], p. 32</ref>