Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (15.2003(2004))

NEA PAPHOS

CYPRUS

formed a doorjamb, an interpretation sup-
ported by finding outside these a large thick
slab 0.47x0.47x0.28 m with a square hole
for a wooden jamb. Features, which may
reflect two construction phases, appear in
the N-S wall, the lower two courses built
with gypsum mortar reaching to 0.1 m
above the datum. West of the preserved
stretch of the northern E-W wall in the
northern and eastern sections, there occurs
a 3-cm thick lime floor (I) at the datum
level. This floor is connected with the E-W
wall, and over it are blocks arranged
vertically and in quite good order, as in
a folded wall. Floor I seems to have preceded
the southern E-W wall, or at least its last
phase, as it is cut along its leveling course.
Under this floor, 0.56 m below, there is
another floor (II) made of greenish-gray clay.
Both the south and the east walls cut
through this floor; in the former case, the
fill along the wall is soft. In the case of the

Fig. 10. Mosaic in trench A 14, seen from the north
(Photo W.A. Daszewski)
46) Lichocka and Meyza, op. cit., 150, l69f, fig- 1.

N-S wall, another lower floor level was en-
countered running up to a wall bonded with
gypsum mortar.
Several (eight) large blocks, probably
from the excavated tumble (above floor I)
were left around the trench. One of these is
a large column or cippus with a hole for an
axial dowel and traces of base mouldings,
remade into an approximately rectangular
pillar 0.77 m high and 0.43 by 0.4 m in
plan.
A 14
Trench situated north of NEH R.9 and
R.l 1W (cf. Fig. 9).46) An E-W wall, 0.51 m
wide and plastered on the northern side,
dividing these rooms from two newly
found ones, was uncovered against the
southern section.
North of it, approximately at the
datum level, a mosaic floor connected with
the E-W wall was found (Fig. 10). It was


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