DOI article:
Daszewski, Wiktor Andrzej: Nea Paphos 1991
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26426#0067
was discovered, the skull crushed by a block of stone; the person
apparently died during the earthquake which destroyed the
building.
In the southern wing of the Hellenistic House the upper fill of
a cistem in the southem end of the westem portico was cleared.
The pottery covered a period from the Late Hellenistic to Roman
of the second half of the 1 st century A. D. and indicated the time
when the cistem went out of use. Its opening dates will be
determined when the lower parts of the fill are explored.
Txcavations within the southem portico permitted some
important general observations to be made. The southem portico
apparently suffered destmction at the same time as the eastem one,
in the second half of the 1 st century A.D., but contrary to the
eastem portico, it was subsequently plundered and completely
destroyed. Preserved fragments indicated that it had had a Doric
colonnade instead of an lonic one as in the eastem wing or
Corinthian as in the westem one. The width of the southem portico
was determined at 3.20 m. A white lime plaster covered the
column dmms and capitals. In the southeastem comer of the court,
directly adjacent to the pool built in this spot at a later date, there
was the opening of another large underground cistem. It was filled
with mbble consisting of blocks from the mined stylobate and
column dmms. There were fragments of Cypriot Sigillata from the
late 1 st century A. D. in the debris, while sherds of a Cnidian
amphora of the 2 nd century B. C. were found at a lower level.
Although the evidence overall is not sufficient to date the cistem,
the stmcture should be considered contemporary with the building
and presumably reused at the time of the constmction of the pool.
In the eastem wing of the stmcture the explorations of the
latrine (No. 8) were completed (a comer of this facility had been
identified in the previous season). It tumed out to be of large
dimensions (4.76 x 3.86 m), comfortable for at least ten people at
a time. Particular walls were preserved to a height from 0.50 to
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apparently died during the earthquake which destroyed the
building.
In the southern wing of the Hellenistic House the upper fill of
a cistem in the southem end of the westem portico was cleared.
The pottery covered a period from the Late Hellenistic to Roman
of the second half of the 1 st century A. D. and indicated the time
when the cistem went out of use. Its opening dates will be
determined when the lower parts of the fill are explored.
Txcavations within the southem portico permitted some
important general observations to be made. The southem portico
apparently suffered destmction at the same time as the eastem one,
in the second half of the 1 st century A.D., but contrary to the
eastem portico, it was subsequently plundered and completely
destroyed. Preserved fragments indicated that it had had a Doric
colonnade instead of an lonic one as in the eastem wing or
Corinthian as in the westem one. The width of the southem portico
was determined at 3.20 m. A white lime plaster covered the
column dmms and capitals. In the southeastem comer of the court,
directly adjacent to the pool built in this spot at a later date, there
was the opening of another large underground cistem. It was filled
with mbble consisting of blocks from the mined stylobate and
column dmms. There were fragments of Cypriot Sigillata from the
late 1 st century A. D. in the debris, while sherds of a Cnidian
amphora of the 2 nd century B. C. were found at a lower level.
Although the evidence overall is not sufficient to date the cistem,
the stmcture should be considered contemporary with the building
and presumably reused at the time of the constmction of the pool.
In the eastem wing of the stmcture the explorations of the
latrine (No. 8) were completed (a comer of this facility had been
identified in the previous season). It tumed out to be of large
dimensions (4.76 x 3.86 m), comfortable for at least ten people at
a time. Particular walls were preserved to a height from 0.50 to
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