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DOI Artikel:Daszewski, Wiktor Andrzej: Excavations 1995
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26390#0095
this area (Room 4 and 4N) scanty remains of a hypocaust floor and
a well preserved water basin were also found. During the present
season, the lower floor of the hypocaust and fragments of
supporting brick pillars were cleared. It appears almost quite
certain now that the /j/Y7q/7//?777//77 was located to the north-west of
Room 4. A small pit sunk under the floor in Room 4N immediately
to the south of the courtyard wall produced exclusively Hellenistic
pottery, thus corroborating the construction date for the earlier
building.
In the eastern part of the Hellenistic House (Fig. 1.) a large
trench (7 x 6 m) was located immediately to the east of Rooms 7
and 8 (laundry (?) and latrine)/ Brown soil and some loose stones
and potsherds constituted the fill down to a depth of 0.60 m below
present ground surface; the most recent sherd is a fragment of a
Byzantine glazed vessel. The tops of large stone blocks were
cleared at the 0.60-0.70 m level. Architectural decoration
fragments were found among the stone blocks, including an
architrave and a C7/%77/& The fill also contained fragments of
terracotta oil lamps, tiles, pipes, figurines, white and coloured lime
plaster and great quantities of pottery sherds, mainly storage
vessels but also tableware. Stone walls appeared at a depth of 0.90
m on the south and west of the trench. The layer of large blocks
reached the greyish-green tamped habitation level at a depth of
some 1.05 m. On the south, this level adjoined the lower step of a
threshold (some 30 cm higher) belonging to a large door (1.55 m)
opening in the south wall. The large room which was cleared
eventually, bordered on the latrine (no. 8) on the west. On the
south it was closed by the outer wall of a building running along
the latitudinal street. Inside the room, on the axis of the door, the
central part of the room was built up in the form of a large
podium-like enclosure (2.50 x 2.42 m). On the south, the podium
^ Cf. BCN 114, 1990, p. 975, fig. 96.
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a well preserved water basin were also found. During the present
season, the lower floor of the hypocaust and fragments of
supporting brick pillars were cleared. It appears almost quite
certain now that the /j/Y7q/7//?777//77 was located to the north-west of
Room 4. A small pit sunk under the floor in Room 4N immediately
to the south of the courtyard wall produced exclusively Hellenistic
pottery, thus corroborating the construction date for the earlier
building.
In the eastern part of the Hellenistic House (Fig. 1.) a large
trench (7 x 6 m) was located immediately to the east of Rooms 7
and 8 (laundry (?) and latrine)/ Brown soil and some loose stones
and potsherds constituted the fill down to a depth of 0.60 m below
present ground surface; the most recent sherd is a fragment of a
Byzantine glazed vessel. The tops of large stone blocks were
cleared at the 0.60-0.70 m level. Architectural decoration
fragments were found among the stone blocks, including an
architrave and a C7/%77/& The fill also contained fragments of
terracotta oil lamps, tiles, pipes, figurines, white and coloured lime
plaster and great quantities of pottery sherds, mainly storage
vessels but also tableware. Stone walls appeared at a depth of 0.90
m on the south and west of the trench. The layer of large blocks
reached the greyish-green tamped habitation level at a depth of
some 1.05 m. On the south, this level adjoined the lower step of a
threshold (some 30 cm higher) belonging to a large door (1.55 m)
opening in the south wall. The large room which was cleared
eventually, bordered on the latrine (no. 8) on the west. On the
south it was closed by the outer wall of a building running along
the latitudinal street. Inside the room, on the axis of the door, the
central part of the room was built up in the form of a large
podium-like enclosure (2.50 x 2.42 m). On the south, the podium
^ Cf. BCN 114, 1990, p. 975, fig. 96.
93