DOI Artikel:
Daszewski, Wiktor Andrzej: Nea Paphos 1991
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26426#0063
and went out of use at the time that the Villa of Theseus was
constructed. In three of the rooms there were large clay bins set in
the floor in the eastem comers, adjacent to the streeL Originally,
these clay bins were supposed to be located in specially prepared
openings in the eastem walls of these rooms (see Fig. 2), but this
plan was abandoned and the bins were moved slightly to the west
in order to be inside the rooms. Similar clay vessels were
discovered on the other side of the street, in another early edifice
facing it on the east. There, in room no. 95, a bin of this kind
contained a set of Hellenistic pottery 2, dated from the late 3 rd to the
early 1 st century B. C. In room II of the westem stmcture three
bins of this type were discovered; the northemmost one was
explored in 1983 and was found to be almost empty, except for a
few sherds of storage vessels. The other two bins located in the
southeastem comer were investigated presently. They were similar
in dimensions: about 1 m in diameter, and originally projected
slightly above floor level. In the debris filling the two bins
fragments of a plain, slightly flaring rim were discovered. Both
bins belonged to an earlier phase in the occupation of the room,
for at a later date they were bisected by a narrow stone wall
mnning from east to west. Neither one had a bottom, so they could
not have served as pithoi, but rather as the lining of a hole in the
ground. In both cases the bottom was made separately of different
materials: in the eastem bin the floor consisted of flat-lying
potsherds, exhibiting traces of buming, found at a depth of c. 0.35
m from the preserved top of the bin, which is more or less flush
with the level of the floor in the room. Exploration of the westem
of the two bins provided interesting results. At a depth of c. 0.2 m
there was a kind of floor made of flat-lying potsherds and pebbles
in a bumt grey soil. A little above this floor. in a layer of bumt
black soil, there was a jawbone of a small boar or pig. About 10
2 See W. A. Daszewski, Nea Paphos 1990, PAM H, 1990 (1991), pp. 68-9.
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constructed. In three of the rooms there were large clay bins set in
the floor in the eastem comers, adjacent to the streeL Originally,
these clay bins were supposed to be located in specially prepared
openings in the eastem walls of these rooms (see Fig. 2), but this
plan was abandoned and the bins were moved slightly to the west
in order to be inside the rooms. Similar clay vessels were
discovered on the other side of the street, in another early edifice
facing it on the east. There, in room no. 95, a bin of this kind
contained a set of Hellenistic pottery 2, dated from the late 3 rd to the
early 1 st century B. C. In room II of the westem stmcture three
bins of this type were discovered; the northemmost one was
explored in 1983 and was found to be almost empty, except for a
few sherds of storage vessels. The other two bins located in the
southeastem comer were investigated presently. They were similar
in dimensions: about 1 m in diameter, and originally projected
slightly above floor level. In the debris filling the two bins
fragments of a plain, slightly flaring rim were discovered. Both
bins belonged to an earlier phase in the occupation of the room,
for at a later date they were bisected by a narrow stone wall
mnning from east to west. Neither one had a bottom, so they could
not have served as pithoi, but rather as the lining of a hole in the
ground. In both cases the bottom was made separately of different
materials: in the eastem bin the floor consisted of flat-lying
potsherds, exhibiting traces of buming, found at a depth of c. 0.35
m from the preserved top of the bin, which is more or less flush
with the level of the floor in the room. Exploration of the westem
of the two bins provided interesting results. At a depth of c. 0.2 m
there was a kind of floor made of flat-lying potsherds and pebbles
in a bumt grey soil. A little above this floor. in a layer of bumt
black soil, there was a jawbone of a small boar or pig. About 10
2 See W. A. Daszewski, Nea Paphos 1990, PAM H, 1990 (1991), pp. 68-9.
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