DOI article:
Majcherek, Grzegorz: Excavations at Kom el-Dikka in Alexandria in the 1989 season
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42008#0082
(uncovered partially in the preceding season) a red-painted piaster band of
decoration imitating opus isodomum is well preserved. Similar wall decoration is
encountered in the architecture of earlier periods^.
The debris filling this room contained numerous potsherds and lamps from
thelst-2ndcent. AD. Inthecomeroftheroom an Italian Early Roman amphora
was set up; its bottom has been sawed off so it could serve as a drain running
off wastes to the street channel on Rt.
Remains of Early Roman architecture were uncovered also in rooms H-5 and
H-6. Fragments of walls built in cpusguadratum and plastered in imitation of
the wall bond were cleared here. The fill of the interiors consisted of debris
from the dismantling of houses in the neighbourhood. It yielded numerous
fragments of architectural decoration including a small fluted column covered
witn stucco and painted limestone capital.
H-8 is a large room which adjoins the street and measures roughly 3.8 by
4.8m. It is. therefore, similar in sice to room H-3a cleared in the preceding
season. It most certainly was one of the main rooms of the villa. Several layers
of lime piasterwork upon the walls is evidence of long-lasting habitation.
However, the floor level corresponding to this period has not been reached as
yet. Running along the eastern wall of the room there was a small channel
orientated K-S, built of small rectangular blocks covered with slabs. Together
with the channel uncovered in room H-l in the preceding season, it forms part of
the drainage system inside the building.
The entire room was filled with a thick deposit of debris and ashes which
yielded numerous objects including somewellpreservediampsdatedtothe2nd-
!)See, for example, the tombs at Anfushy: A. Adriani.Annuaire duHusdeGreco-
Romainlll, 1940-50, fig. 35, 36.
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decoration imitating opus isodomum is well preserved. Similar wall decoration is
encountered in the architecture of earlier periods^.
The debris filling this room contained numerous potsherds and lamps from
thelst-2ndcent. AD. Inthecomeroftheroom an Italian Early Roman amphora
was set up; its bottom has been sawed off so it could serve as a drain running
off wastes to the street channel on Rt.
Remains of Early Roman architecture were uncovered also in rooms H-5 and
H-6. Fragments of walls built in cpusguadratum and plastered in imitation of
the wall bond were cleared here. The fill of the interiors consisted of debris
from the dismantling of houses in the neighbourhood. It yielded numerous
fragments of architectural decoration including a small fluted column covered
witn stucco and painted limestone capital.
H-8 is a large room which adjoins the street and measures roughly 3.8 by
4.8m. It is. therefore, similar in sice to room H-3a cleared in the preceding
season. It most certainly was one of the main rooms of the villa. Several layers
of lime piasterwork upon the walls is evidence of long-lasting habitation.
However, the floor level corresponding to this period has not been reached as
yet. Running along the eastern wall of the room there was a small channel
orientated K-S, built of small rectangular blocks covered with slabs. Together
with the channel uncovered in room H-l in the preceding season, it forms part of
the drainage system inside the building.
The entire room was filled with a thick deposit of debris and ashes which
yielded numerous objects including somewellpreservediampsdatedtothe2nd-
!)See, for example, the tombs at Anfushy: A. Adriani.Annuaire duHusdeGreco-
Romainlll, 1940-50, fig. 35, 36.
78