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'.HOUSE OF THE FRESCOES' 433
Actually resting on the lower part of the walls of the middle section East
was a large Roman oven, and in the immediately adjoining region one of
the ' wager pits', by which the overlying earth was removed, struck a Roman
burial cist containing an extended skeleton, apparently of a woman, and
a tall amphora.
Very different had been the case of houses which, like several of those
beyond the Palace borders on its farther side, had not only had the partial
support of the hill-side, but had lain beyond the zone of invasion by the later
occupants of the soil.
Disturbances due to Greco-Roman building activity had specially Entrance
affected the small projecting wing on the North side of the ' House of the house" °
Frescoes' that contained the entrance system. Its walls, however, where
not preserved above the ground level, were traceable by means of their
foundations, except for a slight gap where the actual doorway had been (see
Plan, Fig. 251). The foundations and overlying limestone plinth of this
little projecting wing stepped slightly up from South to North, and remains
were visible of a line of gypsum blocks above the plinth.1 Flanking the
entrance lobby on the left, probably with a step up, was a small room, one
gypsum door-jamb of which had been preserved in position, though the
party wall had disappeared. This would have clearly been the door-keeper's Door-
room, and it contained two paving slabs of ironstone—d/xvySa\6\i6os—at room!rs
two different levels, showing that the floor had been raised at some period.
The lower of these—12 cm. below the other—was covered with red-faced
stucco, representing the original floor decoration.
On the right side, the entrance hall (A) at its farther end gave into the interior
first of two passage rooms (K, J), and, immediately by its entrance, into an
elongated space (C), apparently lit by a window in the North wall, which again
communicates with another (D) to the South of it. Unfortunately, a large
part of the interior area of these had been so much turned over by treasure-
hunters that a detailed knowledge of its original arrangements is now im-
possible. From its elongated shape it may be suggested that C contained
the staircase, indeed this conclusion is almost inevitable. It was in disturbed
earth above the West section of D, about a metre above the floor-level,
that there occurred two cult objects of great interest, described below, namely,
the inscribed libation table and stone ladle.
In the narrow compartment, E, bordering D on the East, occurred the
In the East wall of the house there is an intervening limestone course between the plinth
and the gypsum blocks.
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Actually resting on the lower part of the walls of the middle section East
was a large Roman oven, and in the immediately adjoining region one of
the ' wager pits', by which the overlying earth was removed, struck a Roman
burial cist containing an extended skeleton, apparently of a woman, and
a tall amphora.
Very different had been the case of houses which, like several of those
beyond the Palace borders on its farther side, had not only had the partial
support of the hill-side, but had lain beyond the zone of invasion by the later
occupants of the soil.
Disturbances due to Greco-Roman building activity had specially Entrance
affected the small projecting wing on the North side of the ' House of the house" °
Frescoes' that contained the entrance system. Its walls, however, where
not preserved above the ground level, were traceable by means of their
foundations, except for a slight gap where the actual doorway had been (see
Plan, Fig. 251). The foundations and overlying limestone plinth of this
little projecting wing stepped slightly up from South to North, and remains
were visible of a line of gypsum blocks above the plinth.1 Flanking the
entrance lobby on the left, probably with a step up, was a small room, one
gypsum door-jamb of which had been preserved in position, though the
party wall had disappeared. This would have clearly been the door-keeper's Door-
room, and it contained two paving slabs of ironstone—d/xvySa\6\i6os—at room!rs
two different levels, showing that the floor had been raised at some period.
The lower of these—12 cm. below the other—was covered with red-faced
stucco, representing the original floor decoration.
On the right side, the entrance hall (A) at its farther end gave into the interior
first of two passage rooms (K, J), and, immediately by its entrance, into an
elongated space (C), apparently lit by a window in the North wall, which again
communicates with another (D) to the South of it. Unfortunately, a large
part of the interior area of these had been so much turned over by treasure-
hunters that a detailed knowledge of its original arrangements is now im-
possible. From its elongated shape it may be suggested that C contained
the staircase, indeed this conclusion is almost inevitable. It was in disturbed
earth above the West section of D, about a metre above the floor-level,
that there occurred two cult objects of great interest, described below, namely,
the inscribed libation table and stone ladle.
In the narrow compartment, E, bordering D on the East, occurred the
In the East wall of the house there is an intervening limestone course between the plinth
and the gypsum blocks.
"• Gg