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Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean — 7.1995(1996)

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Syria
DOI Artikel:
Gawlikowski, Michał: Excavations 1995
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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26390#0144
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he southernmost floors of the house are very close to the present
surface. As to the walls of this sector, they were mostly robbed and
partly replaced with later enclosures.
In addition to the three courtyards and their dependencies
excavated in the past seasons, two more courtyards have been
discovered, and there is reason to believe that yet another might
have been located in the poorly preserved SE part of the house. I
had suggested in my last report that one of the living units then
known, presumably the one around the more readily accessible
loc. 22, represented men's quarters, while the more secluded
apartments opening from loc. 35 would have been reserved for
women. This hypothesis remains likely, but the Endings of this year
make the problem of the function more complex than expected.
THE EXCAVATIONS OF 1995
This season an additional two rooms were excavated, opening
off the courtyard loc. 35 found last year (loci 40 and 41). Yet
another courtyard (loc. 39), provided with a portico of two columns
on the northern side, has been uncovered to the west. Behind these
columns, there opened a large passage leading into room 36
(excavated in 1993), thus assuring indirect communication with the
courtyard loc. 35. On its eastern side, the courtyard gave access to a
well-preserved staircase (loc. 39a) which led to the terrace over the
colonnade of loc. 35, while providing a passage on ground level
between the two courts. The new court also had an independent
entrance from Diogenes Street (loc. 38).
More rooms depended on this fourth courtyard of the house
(loci 42, 47, 49, 50), one of them (loc. 47) serving as a passage to
yet another court (loc. 46). This is smaller and was provided with
four columns forming a square with raised pavement in the centre.
The southern wall of this courtyard is at the same time the limit of
the house.

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