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immediately underlying strata were preserved in the southern part
of this cut and contained pottery of the same period.9 The layers
rested on a pavement of rectangular slabs (S.9.4), broken and
disturbed in the northern end, adjacent to the E-W wall (S.13).
Across the pavement another gutter seems to have run
southeastwards. The pavement certainly goes under the plaster
buttress erected (S.8.3), and probably also the eastern face of the
N-S wall (S.8.2).
To the north the E-W wall (S.13) separates the paved area
around the wellhead from the two partly uncovered rooms divided
by the northern continuation of the N-S wall (S.8). It seems
necessary to differentiate two phases in the E-W wall. Its western
part has a clearly preserved levelling foundation course built of
large masonry blocks (S. 13.2), while the eastern part, as well as the
northern part of the N-S wall, was built of small irregular stones
(S. 13.1), and could have belonged to the fill of a narrow
foundation trench, typical of Cypriot architecture in Roman times.
The top of the masonry levelling course is situated lower than the
earlier pavement (S.7.3) and bears cuts which may have been made
for a door bolt (on the east) and perhaps a socle for a door jamb
(on the west, only 8 cm long). It seems that in the later phase,
corresponding to the upper pavement, the same place where this
door had once been located was also used as a passage: remains of
a very worn threshold were found at a higher level, that is, north of
E-W wall. Just east of it a socle for a doorjamb was uncovered. In
both phases the door opened northward. It seems possible,
therefore, that this door gave access from a paved courtyard with
a cistern to one of the rooms, probably of household character,
with two successive daub floors. The later one (S. 14.1) was
introduced when the threshold was already heavily worn. The thin
gray layer of decayed plaster (S.14.0) on top of this later floor

9 Contexts 20/96, 22/96, 23/96: Eastern Sigillata A form 51, two pieces of
Tripolitanian amphora, probably a piece of Mau XXVII/XXVIII amphora.
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