DOI article:
Daszewski, Wiktor Andrzej: Nea Paphos 1990 report
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26389#0082
be dated to the period from the end of the 3r^ to the early ls^ century B.C.. The stamp
on the amphora belongs to Diodotos, dated to 210-175 B.C.. By the same token there can
be no further doubt concerning the dating of the dwellings on either side of the street
the later Hellenistic period.
Within the House of Aionwork proceeded to the northeast of rooms discovered so
far, particularly in the vicinity of rooms 7 and 8. The debris inside room 7 included
many bits of painted plasters from the walls and ceiling. The decoration was figural,
vegetal and geometric; the figural parts were of outstanding quality. Substantial
fragments of the decoration were pieced together from preserved bits in the course of
the season; an example of this work is a male figure in the dress of a kitharodos,
perhaps a representation of Apollo (Fig. 2). Excavations were carried out to the north
of this room, on the other side of its northern wall. Two other rooms were found to be
adjacent to it. Their floors were on a much higher level and they were separated by a
N-S wall without foundation. They can be dated quite precisely by numerous coins and
pottery of the second and third quarters of the century A.D.. In the northwestern
part a stratigraphical trench reached bedrock at little over 2.1 m below the preserved
tops of the walls. It was found that the earliest habitations belonged to the Ptolemaic
period, presumably the beginning of the 26i* century B.C.. These Hellenistic structures
subsequently served as foundation for the northern wall of room 7. Nevertheless, the
area must have been occupied at an even earlier date, even before anything was built
here. Sherds lying immediately upon bedrock are proof of it: fragments of a black-
figured Attic vase and a hydria of the White Painted VII type and perhaps also White
Painted II. The most interesting find from the trench was a terracotta oil lamp discus
from the middle of the 1st century A.D., decorated with a very rare representation of the
nymph Amaltheia nursing a small Zeus.
The trench east of room 8 of the House of Aion uncovered a large part of yet .
another room lying on a level some 0.5 m higher than the rest of the house. This newly
discovered room had a plain mosaic floor, similar to that in room 8. It was made up of
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on the amphora belongs to Diodotos, dated to 210-175 B.C.. By the same token there can
be no further doubt concerning the dating of the dwellings on either side of the street
the later Hellenistic period.
Within the House of Aionwork proceeded to the northeast of rooms discovered so
far, particularly in the vicinity of rooms 7 and 8. The debris inside room 7 included
many bits of painted plasters from the walls and ceiling. The decoration was figural,
vegetal and geometric; the figural parts were of outstanding quality. Substantial
fragments of the decoration were pieced together from preserved bits in the course of
the season; an example of this work is a male figure in the dress of a kitharodos,
perhaps a representation of Apollo (Fig. 2). Excavations were carried out to the north
of this room, on the other side of its northern wall. Two other rooms were found to be
adjacent to it. Their floors were on a much higher level and they were separated by a
N-S wall without foundation. They can be dated quite precisely by numerous coins and
pottery of the second and third quarters of the century A.D.. In the northwestern
part a stratigraphical trench reached bedrock at little over 2.1 m below the preserved
tops of the walls. It was found that the earliest habitations belonged to the Ptolemaic
period, presumably the beginning of the 26i* century B.C.. These Hellenistic structures
subsequently served as foundation for the northern wall of room 7. Nevertheless, the
area must have been occupied at an even earlier date, even before anything was built
here. Sherds lying immediately upon bedrock are proof of it: fragments of a black-
figured Attic vase and a hydria of the White Painted VII type and perhaps also White
Painted II. The most interesting find from the trench was a terracotta oil lamp discus
from the middle of the 1st century A.D., decorated with a very rare representation of the
nymph Amaltheia nursing a small Zeus.
The trench east of room 8 of the House of Aion uncovered a large part of yet .
another room lying on a level some 0.5 m higher than the rest of the house. This newly
discovered room had a plain mosaic floor, similar to that in room 8. It was made up of
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