Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (15.2003(2004))

NEA PAPHOS

CYPRUS

1.55m below the datum. It is the only one
to be related with any certainty to the early
N-S wall with preserved thick plaster
coating. The next floor, 0.15 m higher up,
may have belonged to a later phase of this
structure. Both extend only to a line 0.5 m
distant from the northern edge of the
wellhead. The N-S wall also discontinues
after another 0.12 m southward. The
following two floors, at 0.42 m and 0.5 m
above the preserved floor, can be seen in
the trench section extending over the
plastered wall. Finds from the first layer in
the southwestern part of the initial trench
included amphorae of types Mau 27/28
and Kapitan II,36) and should be later than
the 2nd century AD. The layer below
contained a large corroded bronze coin,
probably Ptolemaic, and a Knidian Gray
Ware handle dating to the 1st century BC.
A 11
Trench in the Late Roman street between
VT and HA, opposite VT R.86. It was
situated in the corner of the Hellenistic
walls, visible after removing the tumble of
the House of Aion and the Northeastern
House. Once a street surface and under-
lying fill were removed, at 0.52 m below
the datum, another E-W wall was found
0.75 m to the north. All the walls were
c. 0.5 m thick. The east and south walls had
their foundation leveling courses at ap-
proximately the same height, that is, 0.9 m
below the datum. They also seem to be
interconnected and a poorly visible gray
floor visible in the western section at
0.65 m below the wall top belonged
probably to the construction level (?). The
main level corresponds to a threshold in the
N-S wall, situated just north of trench All.

Another E-W wall ran asymmetrically with
respect to the threshold, just 0.6 m to the
north. The entire N-S wall is preserved on
a slightly higher level than the E-W one
and probably acted as a curb for the Late
Roman street. Inside trench All, possibly
in a pit dug in the corner of these walls, an
assemblage of vessels was found (Fig. 8).
The deposit consisted of a somewhat
damaged cooking pot with a lid, the latter
made of a Color Coated Ware bowl with
inturned rim datable to c. 40-10 BC’71 and
a second cooking pot placed over these two.
The upper pot was broken. In the cor-
responding layer, apart from a number of


Fig. 8. Trench All, deposit of cooking pots and
an intumed-rim bowl used as a lid, seen
from the north (Photo W.A. Daszewski)

36) K.W. Slane, Amphoras - Used and Reused - at Corinth, in: Transport Amphorae and Trade in the Eastern Mediter-
ranean, ed. J. Eiring and J. Lund (Aarhus 2004), 364f., n. 15.
37) J.W. Hayes, Paphos III: The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery (Nicosia 1991), 150, fig. LIII:42, A 42.

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