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

technique. On the two earlier layers of plaster the decoration took on form of large
rectangular fields of uniform colour, alternately red and black. Their sides as well as
the corner of the room were emphasized by vertical bands of either red or green colour.
White and red bands separated the fields from each other. The latest layer of plastering
was a whitish plaster with a red line running about 0.3 m above floor level.

The ceramic material accompanying the relics of architecture indicated that the
building, constructed in the later Hellenistic period, continued in use right down to
perhaps the second half of the 1st century A.D., when it was destroyed in an earthquake.
The ruins served subsequently as a ready source of building material, an activity which
apparently continued up to the middle of the 2111* century A.D. as indicated by ceramic
evidence from the fill of the dismantled walls. It was at this time that the Villa of
Theseus started taking shape; many fragments of architectural details found previously
reused in the walls of the Roman residence can now be surely traced to this Hellenistic
House.

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