Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (3.1991(1992))

1.20 m above the waterproof floor of lime mortar in the central
part of the room. On the east and south deep drains ran along the
walls; presumably wooden seats in a wooden frame were mounted
above these drains. The fili yielded fragments of terracotta oil
lamps, fragments of terracotta figurines and the bottom part of a
stone statuette representing Kybele seated on a throne supported on
two sitting lions. The ceramic evidence clearly indicates that,
although the room was destroyed in the second half of the 1 st
century A. D., at least part of the facility continued in use till the
first half of the 2 nd century A.D.

The third sector is the Roman House of Aion (Fig. 4); three
trenches were opened here. A deep test trench was dug at the
hypothetical intersection of the southem wall of the house with the
continuation of the eastem wail of room no. 6, but without results,
this part of the house having been destroyed completely in modem
times (a deep pit with modem wrappers found at the bottom,
possibly evidence of earthworks of some kind carried out by the
RAJF meteorological station once located in this area).

Another trench was opened in the
northeastem comer of room no. 5. An
earlier lime mortar floor was uncovered
about 0.35 m below the present one.

The absence of finds did not allow an
absolute chronology to be established.

All that could be determined was the
contemporaneity of the floor with an
earlier wall, apparently of Hellenistic
construction, extending to the north and
well preserved there, where parts of it
had been reused in the construction of
the eastem wall of room no. 7 of the
House of Aion.

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Fig. 4. The House of Aion.

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