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segments had inspection holes. Further
down, at 1.03 m below the datum, the
slabs covering an E-W channel in street B
were found. Most of the covering slabs
(0.59 x 0.43 x 0.1 m at the iargest) were
disturbed and the channel was partly filled.
The fill reaches 1.4 m below the top of the
covering slabs. Above the ruined channel
covering a stony fill occurs, perhaps from
an earlier trench (?).
T {gamma) 9-10
Trench excavated in December 2002, sub-
sequently extended northward by 0.9 m in
the eastern part and 0.5 m and less in the
western part. A continuation of the east curb
of the Hellenistic-Early Roman street 9 was
found with corresponding floors east of it.35-*


Fig. 6. Trench All, seen from the northwest
(Photo W.A. Daszewski)

B {beta!vita) 8
Trench in the northeastern corner of the VT
peristyle courtyard, enlarged southward to
measure 3-5 m in length. Immediately
below a reconstructed wall closing the
north side of the court, in the southeastern
corner of two walls, the remains of a round
well or cistern mouth were found at 0.21 m
below the datum. It may belong to a cistern
fed from a basin to the north with an input
hole to the northwest. The N-S wall seems
to continue the west wall of the basin. This
wall reveals two phases of construction, the
later one related to the E-W wall forming
the corner. The earlier phase, running south
from the corner, in its southern part has
three courses preserved above the founda-
tion leveling at 0.44 m below the datum.
In the northern part of the trench, the
lowest layer (1.0-1.5 m below the surface)
contained a sherd of Italian sigillata with
a planta paedis stamp; in the southern exten-
sion, the lowest layer seems to be slightly
earlier, with the latest pieces being a Late
Hellenistic/Early Roman Red Slip jug and
a Gaza amphora. An interesting group of
fragments of a decorated applique of
a brazier belong to an earlier phase.
A 9
Trench in the eastern part of VT R.104S,
enlarged 1.5 m to the east. Running down
the middle was the foundation, 1.0 m wide,
of the western curb of the Hellenistic-Early
Roman street 9; on top of it there appeared
two slabs forming an “L” at 0.57 m below
the datum. On its west side, a corner of two
plastered walls was uncovered, forming the
northern and western sections of this part of
the trench. Below (0.34 m) the plaster on
these walls, south of the plastered area,
there is a hard lime floor at 1.25 m below
the datum. A band of soil 0.08 m thick

35) Meyza, PAM XIV, op. cit., n. 8, 9.

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