DOI Artikel:
Daszewski, Wiktor Andrzej: Nea Paphos 1990 report
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26389#0081
previous season, but did not supply any conclusive dating evidence. Investigations
were continued this year, the object being a large terracotta container sunk into the
ground near the outer wall of a room on the eastern side of the street. The results were
Fig. 1. Plan of the Polish excavations.
VT - Villa of Theseus, HA - House of Aion, HH - Hellenistic House.
very interesting. It turned out that the container was a kind of cylinder without bottom.
Its flat floor, some 0.5 m below the preserved top of the container, was made of
potsherds set flat in a layer of clay and bearing evidence of burning. Inside the
container, in a fill of rather homogenous grey clayey soil mixed with ashes there was a
pottery deposit including plates, cups, bowls, kitchen pots, fragments of Megarian
bowls, a stamped Rhodian amphora and three terracotta oil lamps. The entire group can
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were continued this year, the object being a large terracotta container sunk into the
ground near the outer wall of a room on the eastern side of the street. The results were
Fig. 1. Plan of the Polish excavations.
VT - Villa of Theseus, HA - House of Aion, HH - Hellenistic House.
very interesting. It turned out that the container was a kind of cylinder without bottom.
Its flat floor, some 0.5 m below the preserved top of the container, was made of
potsherds set flat in a layer of clay and bearing evidence of burning. Inside the
container, in a fill of rather homogenous grey clayey soil mixed with ashes there was a
pottery deposit including plates, cups, bowls, kitchen pots, fragments of Megarian
bowls, a stamped Rhodian amphora and three terracotta oil lamps. The entire group can
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