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greenish surface, perhaps local imitations(?). Fewer still were body
pieces belonging to micaceous water jars and probably to amphora
form Mau XXVII/XVIII. These fragments belong to vessels which
were presumably broken while in use at the wellhead and had
accumulated there. West of the wellhead hemicycle the pavement
(S.7.1) slopes visibly down to the SW, and a cut gutter leads in this
direction. The south westernmost slab is removed or replaced by
a plasted cess-pit probably leading to a water and channel running
southward towards the Hellenistic and Early Roman street A.6 The
pavement is missing immediately west of the wellhead and 15 cm
deeper an earlier one (S.7.3) was uncovered. The space above was
filled by a rather loose fill containing amphora sherds similar to
those found in the daub over the upper pavement.7 A lime-coated
floor originally overlying the lower pavement is visible in section
under the upper pavement. The slabs of the lower pavement are
made to fit the hemicycle, while south of the wellhead it was
necessary to use small splinters of stone to fill the space between
the slabs of the upper pavement and the block forming the S side
of the wellhead. It follows that the upper pavement constituted
a remodelling of the existing surroundings of the cistern.
In the eastern part of the trench, layers corresponding to the
upper pavement seem to have been damaged, since a lime-coated
floor visible in the eastern section was clearly cut and filled with
loose soil and stones. This loose layer contained pottery mostly of
the 1st century, with a few pieces of early 2nd century.8 Remains of

6 J. Mlynarczyk, Nea Paphos in the Hellenistic Period, Nea Paphos III,
Warsaw 1990, p. 173f„ Fig. 21, PI. XV:30.
7 Context 12/96: mainly Ps.-Kos en cloche and sub-Koan. Tableware is
represented only by residual Hellenistic pieces.
8 Contexts 3/96c, 8/96, 11/96 contain Italian sigillata Consp 3.2, Eastern
Sigillata A foot of Hayes' form 37(7), Cypriot Sigillata rim of form PI 1.
Fig. 2. Stratigraphic diagram of trench in the southern
portico (R. 25) of the Villa of Theseus. -

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