Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (19.2007(2010))

ΝΕΑ PAPHOS

CYPRUS

The fill below the mosaic floor in room
31 yielded a fragmentary terracotta base
with a relief representing girls and boys
dancing and playing castanets [Fig. 5].
Traces of floors related to these
structures are visible in the north section of

the trench. The earliest finds originating
from undisturbed layers in this spot belong
to the Late Hellenistic period; hence, at
least two of the presently uncovered rooms
belonged to a well-built Hellenistic
structure.

EARLY ROMAN HOUSE

Excavations of the so-called Early Roman
House continued just south of rooms 44, 47
and 43 of the Villa of Theseus, in a trench
measuring 4 m in width (N-S) [Fig. 6\.
A late enclosure wall had been joined to the
back of the south walls of VT rooms 44 and
48B, continuing the walls already known to

exist behind rooms 39 and 38 and running
further to the southeast. The southern edge
was delimited by the north wall of rooms 1
and 6 of ERH. The fill reached approx. 0.50
m below the level of floors in rooms 1 and 6.
Here, part of a collapsed E-W wall was
found lying in order, flush with the


NEA PAPHOS,
01
^^,5 200 7 5'm~

Fig. 6. Courtyard between the Villa of Theseus and the Early Roman House with Late Roman
enclosure (Drawing S. Medeksza, A. Brzozowska)

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