DOI Artikel:
Meyza, Henryk: Nea Paphos: stratigraphy and pottery survey below the Achilles mosaic in room 40 of the villa of Theseus
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26424#0085
facing made of head-size stones was uncovered^* and through it
a hole to the cistern was made, exploration not being undertaken,
however, due to limited resources available during the present
campaign. Below the lower series of floors there is only Hellenistic
pottery — Colour Coated bowls and plates, Red Slip and black
slipped sherds. All these are dated to the 2"^ century B.C. Similar
finds occurred between the second-series floors, together with a
few Cypro-Classic White Painted and Plain Ware fragments. A
wall belongs with these floors; it does not seem to be aligned with
the Hellenistic rectangular street grid. The arrangement of several
blocks of its foundation found m and the straight line followed
by the foundation trench edge indicate that its alignment was
somewhat oblique from southeast to northwest. Only Cypro-
Classical pottery is related to the earliest second-series floor. If this
should provide a date for the oblique wall construction, than it may
have belonged to a structure preceding the Hellenistic street grid
layout. Layers below contain scarce, difficult to date pottery, most
probably Cypro-Classic as well.
The risk of cistern collapse has discouraged deeper
excavation than 195 cm under the mosaic floor. Penetration of the
cistern has shown that the strata under exploration were supported
by the collapsed facing of the cistern and are at present
overhanging the void in the rockcut lower part of the reservoir.
W.A. Daszewski, Polish Excavations at Kato (Nea) Paphos in 1970 and
1971, RDAC 1972, p. 210.
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a hole to the cistern was made, exploration not being undertaken,
however, due to limited resources available during the present
campaign. Below the lower series of floors there is only Hellenistic
pottery — Colour Coated bowls and plates, Red Slip and black
slipped sherds. All these are dated to the 2"^ century B.C. Similar
finds occurred between the second-series floors, together with a
few Cypro-Classic White Painted and Plain Ware fragments. A
wall belongs with these floors; it does not seem to be aligned with
the Hellenistic rectangular street grid. The arrangement of several
blocks of its foundation found m and the straight line followed
by the foundation trench edge indicate that its alignment was
somewhat oblique from southeast to northwest. Only Cypro-
Classical pottery is related to the earliest second-series floor. If this
should provide a date for the oblique wall construction, than it may
have belonged to a structure preceding the Hellenistic street grid
layout. Layers below contain scarce, difficult to date pottery, most
probably Cypro-Classic as well.
The risk of cistern collapse has discouraged deeper
excavation than 195 cm under the mosaic floor. Penetration of the
cistern has shown that the strata under exploration were supported
by the collapsed facing of the cistern and are at present
overhanging the void in the rockcut lower part of the reservoir.
W.A. Daszewski, Polish Excavations at Kato (Nea) Paphos in 1970 and
1971, RDAC 1972, p. 210.
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