DOI article:
Daszewski, Wiktor Andrzej: Nea Paphos 1992
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26425#0089
passed upwards through large vertical indentations specially cut
out for this purpose in the walls.
In the southern part of the fepMfunMfn there was a small
semicircular basin which was filled with warm water through lead
pipes and also heated by air from underneath; its floor and walls
were once revetted with greyish-white marble slabs.
On the west the adjoined a square room
decorated with a geometric mosaic floor and murals on the walls.
It was connected both with the and with the living
rooms of the villa, and presumably served as an additional
or as a small recreation hall.
In the eastern portico of VT a stratigraphic trench was
opened in its central part, exactly on axis of the main entrance,
in a place where the mosaic floor had been destroyed completely
and only fragments of the lime and gravel bed were preserved. It
turned out that in modem times, but at a time not to be deter-
mined exactly, a deep trench had been dug here, destroying the
original sequence. Undisturbed stratigraphy was found only in a
part on the northern side of the trench. It permitted four success-
ive habitation levels of the street which had once ran here to be
recorded. This street which took an east-west course was a
continuation of the street which ran from the Paphos harbour to
the villa's main entrance. Its western end was built over when VT
was constructed. The lowest or fourth level lay directly upon the
slabs covering the sewage canal from the Hellenistic period,
situated at 1.35-1.4 m below the mosaic level of the portico.
From the third level up the pottery is to be dated to the turn of
the era, but the modest quantity of finds from the upper layers did
not permit an exact dating.
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out for this purpose in the walls.
In the southern part of the fepMfunMfn there was a small
semicircular basin which was filled with warm water through lead
pipes and also heated by air from underneath; its floor and walls
were once revetted with greyish-white marble slabs.
On the west the adjoined a square room
decorated with a geometric mosaic floor and murals on the walls.
It was connected both with the and with the living
rooms of the villa, and presumably served as an additional
or as a small recreation hall.
In the eastern portico of VT a stratigraphic trench was
opened in its central part, exactly on axis of the main entrance,
in a place where the mosaic floor had been destroyed completely
and only fragments of the lime and gravel bed were preserved. It
turned out that in modem times, but at a time not to be deter-
mined exactly, a deep trench had been dug here, destroying the
original sequence. Undisturbed stratigraphy was found only in a
part on the northern side of the trench. It permitted four success-
ive habitation levels of the street which had once ran here to be
recorded. This street which took an east-west course was a
continuation of the street which ran from the Paphos harbour to
the villa's main entrance. Its western end was built over when VT
was constructed. The lowest or fourth level lay directly upon the
slabs covering the sewage canal from the Hellenistic period,
situated at 1.35-1.4 m below the mosaic level of the portico.
From the third level up the pottery is to be dated to the turn of
the era, but the modest quantity of finds from the upper layers did
not permit an exact dating.
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