DOI issue:
Lebanon
DOI article:Waliszewski, Tomasz; Périssé-Valéro, Ingrid [Contr.]: Chhîm: explorations 2005
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42091#0423
CHHfM
LEBANON
one more beam weight located in the
northwestern part.
This particular press appears to have had
two separate installations in opposite
corners of the facility. The end of the beam
belonging to the southern pressing
installation must have been placed in the
east wall, and by analogy, the end of the
beam of the other installation by the
northern wall would have been set in the
west wall, a theory that the bond of the
preserved section of this wall confirms.
As suggested already in last year's
report, the findings clearly demonstrate the
processes of technological change occurring
in this area in the Byzantine period, when
the new model with mounted wooden screw
gradually replaced an older and more
traditional variant of oil press with
horizontal beam and beam weights.
NORTH AND WEST STREETS
The cistern known to lie north of the
complex of Oil Press E.III was explored
sufficiently to identify it as being of typical
piriform shape. Its walls were coated with
waterproof mortar and the vault
constructed of stones up to 0.30 m in size,
bonded in lime mortar.
A street appears to have separated the
cistern from the oil press. It was
constructed already after the cistern was in
place (its northern edge is supported in
part on the cistern), leaving no doubt as to
Fig. 8.
Oil press E.III. On the left, cylindrical weight anchoring the wooden screw belonging to the
southern press installation (Photo T. Gora)
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LEBANON
one more beam weight located in the
northwestern part.
This particular press appears to have had
two separate installations in opposite
corners of the facility. The end of the beam
belonging to the southern pressing
installation must have been placed in the
east wall, and by analogy, the end of the
beam of the other installation by the
northern wall would have been set in the
west wall, a theory that the bond of the
preserved section of this wall confirms.
As suggested already in last year's
report, the findings clearly demonstrate the
processes of technological change occurring
in this area in the Byzantine period, when
the new model with mounted wooden screw
gradually replaced an older and more
traditional variant of oil press with
horizontal beam and beam weights.
NORTH AND WEST STREETS
The cistern known to lie north of the
complex of Oil Press E.III was explored
sufficiently to identify it as being of typical
piriform shape. Its walls were coated with
waterproof mortar and the vault
constructed of stones up to 0.30 m in size,
bonded in lime mortar.
A street appears to have separated the
cistern from the oil press. It was
constructed already after the cistern was in
place (its northern edge is supported in
part on the cistern), leaving no doubt as to
Fig. 8.
Oil press E.III. On the left, cylindrical weight anchoring the wooden screw belonging to the
southern press installation (Photo T. Gora)
419