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Earle, Mortimer Lamson: Supplementary report of the excavations [at the theatre of Sikyon]
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REPORT OF EXCA VATIOSS AT S1KY0N.
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near the point where it ends above (as indicated on the plan). It
thus does not coincide exactly in dimensions with W. The width of
the wall dividing this from the inner ramp is from 0.50 m. to 0.60 m.
In regard to the large s. E. chamber (itf), which is now fully exca-
vated, a few details may be added to the results obtained by the former
investigations. Around the interior walls of this chamber, there is a
continuous rock-cutting in the form of a bench or seat, broken only by
the doorway of the chamber. The width of this bench is about 0.45 m.,
and its height from the floor about 0.40 m. It was coated with stucco.
At the doorway of the chamber there is a low step ; and in the centre
of the chamber we found what appeared to be the base of a pillar or
roof-support of poros. A considerable quantity of broken roofing-tiles
was found within the chamber. The largest of these measures 0.415 m.
by 0.46 m., the length having been originally greater. With these
tiles were found a small figurine of a cock, in terracotta, one or two
common terracotta lamps, and some other insignificant objects.
In the course of the work on the theatre, some thirty-five copper
coins were found, most of them in exceedingly bad preservation. Of
these, several are unmistakably Sikyonian. They were found chiefly
■ in the -irapohoi.
A few remarks must be added with respect to the so-called
assumed above to be a portion of the central drain of the orchestra
extending transversely under the entire Graeco-Roman cnctjvr) from
A to E.a In the course of the work, I had one of the massive cover-
stones of this cavity removed (at 8 in the plan), and found a deep
channel, 0.65 m. wide, partly cut in the solid rock and partly built up.
It was unobstructed for a considerable distance, so that a man could
easily make his way in it about as far as the wall E, where it was
closed by the solid rock. Its depth was somewhat over a meter.
There was a deposit of earth in the bottom which has been but in part
removed. The depth of the cutting is certainly over 2 m. Two
fragments of poros columns, which lay in front of A (at £ in the
plan), were rolled away, and some earth removed from Ixmeath them.
Here, as was noted at the time, the vir6vofio<; appeared clogged with
earth, and the exact manner of its connection with the orchestra-drain
did not appear. At 7 (between A and B), some digging revealed
6 [This has been designated, on the plan, as Roman, but it must belong to the
same period as the conduit surrounding the orchestra.—A. C. M.]
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near the point where it ends above (as indicated on the plan). It
thus does not coincide exactly in dimensions with W. The width of
the wall dividing this from the inner ramp is from 0.50 m. to 0.60 m.
In regard to the large s. E. chamber (itf), which is now fully exca-
vated, a few details may be added to the results obtained by the former
investigations. Around the interior walls of this chamber, there is a
continuous rock-cutting in the form of a bench or seat, broken only by
the doorway of the chamber. The width of this bench is about 0.45 m.,
and its height from the floor about 0.40 m. It was coated with stucco.
At the doorway of the chamber there is a low step ; and in the centre
of the chamber we found what appeared to be the base of a pillar or
roof-support of poros. A considerable quantity of broken roofing-tiles
was found within the chamber. The largest of these measures 0.415 m.
by 0.46 m., the length having been originally greater. With these
tiles were found a small figurine of a cock, in terracotta, one or two
common terracotta lamps, and some other insignificant objects.
In the course of the work on the theatre, some thirty-five copper
coins were found, most of them in exceedingly bad preservation. Of
these, several are unmistakably Sikyonian. They were found chiefly
■ in the -irapohoi.
A few remarks must be added with respect to the so-called
assumed above to be a portion of the central drain of the orchestra
extending transversely under the entire Graeco-Roman cnctjvr) from
A to E.a In the course of the work, I had one of the massive cover-
stones of this cavity removed (at 8 in the plan), and found a deep
channel, 0.65 m. wide, partly cut in the solid rock and partly built up.
It was unobstructed for a considerable distance, so that a man could
easily make his way in it about as far as the wall E, where it was
closed by the solid rock. Its depth was somewhat over a meter.
There was a deposit of earth in the bottom which has been but in part
removed. The depth of the cutting is certainly over 2 m. Two
fragments of poros columns, which lay in front of A (at £ in the
plan), were rolled away, and some earth removed from Ixmeath them.
Here, as was noted at the time, the vir6vofio<; appeared clogged with
earth, and the exact manner of its connection with the orchestra-drain
did not appear. At 7 (between A and B), some digging revealed
6 [This has been designated, on the plan, as Roman, but it must belong to the
same period as the conduit surrounding the orchestra.—A. C. M.]