Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (2.1989/90(1991))

can enter the largest room of the house (No. 14). In one of these openings traces of a
wooden doorframe were preserved. In the other there were remnants of a wooden
partitioning. The last space is a longitudinal room accessible from the previous one.

The house was provided with a cistern under the court. Rainwater ran directly
from the roof to the cistern. Water from the courtyard served to flush the latrine or was
directed to a container disguised as a bench near the entrance.

In the course of exploration many architectural details were found, including
column drums, capitals, fragments of a tympanon, cornices and a frieze with triglyphs
and metopes. Most interesting were remnants of an aedicula - a shallow niche crowned
with a conch and a tympanon supported on either side by two small columns (Fig. 3).

The walls of the building were covered with plaster. Some of the plaster work was
decorated with polychrome panels. Similar colours (blue, yellow, dark red and black)
were found on the gypsum stucco of the courtyard columns as well as on the stucco

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