Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (10.1998(1999))

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amphorae. A coin of Augustus was found in
one of the late robber pits. One should also
mention fragments of a large marble bowl
and of a plate. The best preserved part of
the room was its mosaic floor (Fig. 9).
Inside a large grayish field there is
a square filled with alternating gray and
claret-red squares set in four rows. Each of
these smaller squares has, alternately,
a small white cross, white diamond and
white gray checkered panel, in the middle,
standing out against a contrasting back-
ground.
Yet another room (R22) was partly
uncovered north of R20. It, too, was severe-

ly ruined, its walls not existent. A mosaic
floor of gray and white tesserae survives in
fragments. Inside a gray frame there is part
of a central square (?) framed with a white
serrated saw-tooth pattern, a wide, gray
band and a smaller square (?) filled with
a four-arm white star upon a gray back-
ground.
The fill above this and neighboring
rooms (R18, R19, R20) yielded numerous
dressed blocks originating from the
destroyed (and later plundered) walls.
Fragments of a niche decorating one of
these walls, recovered last year7), have
now been reassembled (Fig. 10).

7> Cf. PAM IX Reports 1997 (1998), op. cit., pp. 127-128.

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