Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (15.2003(2004))

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mains unchanged. The northern curb of
street A and the drain were located {Fig. 4).
Another channel directing sewage under
the curb to the street drain was now found.
This earlier channel, at least in the house to
the north, was covered with slabs, the top
of which measured 0.14 m below the
datum. The later channel had an outlet cut
in the lower edge of the curb, while the
earlier one was low enough to make it un-
necessary. In situ slabs covering the drain
were also found at 0.44 m below the datum.
K 7
Trench in R.65, enlarged to 3.5 m N-S,
excavated under a plastered floor on a cob-
ble bedding. In the south part of this pit,


Fig. 4- Trench K 6, seen from the south
(Photo W.A. Daszewski)

two earlier floors of R.65 were found,
0.09 m and 0.18 m respectively below the
last floor. Below a leveling layer 0.2 m
thick, containing small stones and crushed
plaster, the northern curb of street A (with
a foundation leveling course up to 0.9 m
wide) was brought to light at 0.18 m above
the datum in the northern part. It was built
of large but partly irregular blocks, and its
upper surface was partly covered with
gypsum mortar. South of it (0.95 m), the
covering of a drain made of large slabs
c. 0.5 m wide and 0.65-0.75 m long was
uncovered at 0.34 m below the datum. In
the eastern section, four successive street
surfaces were visible, the lowermost almost
level with the drain covering. Some 0.3 m
below this, another floor made of gray
clayey soil was cut in its southern part by
the trough of a drain, the top of which is at
0.67 m below the datum. Of the two layers
discerned, the upper one was dated to the
late 1st or early 2nd century AD by a CS
form PI2, Roman amphorae of late
Rhodian and pseudo-Koan types, and the
lower one to the 1st century AD by an
Eastern Sigillata B base fragment, and the
foot of a micaceous water jar.
K 8
Trench excavated in VT R.4l in December
2002,24> presently enlarged 1.3 m to the
east and extended to 3.4 m (N-S) in the
eastern end. The N-S wall was found to
stand on large slabs covering the drain of
street A at 0.03 m above the datum. The
channel itself was not excavated, and only
its northern edge was uncovered at 0.49 m
below the datum. The curb of the street was
found 1.3 m to the north of it, its top at
0.24 m below the datum. In the eastern
section, two oblong blocks seem to belong
to a side channel discharging into the drain.

24) Meyza, PAM XIV, op. cit., 257-259, fig. 1.

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