DOI issue:
Cyprus
DOI article:Daszewski, Wiktor Andrzej: Nea Paphos: excavations 1997
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41242#0130
to the entrance of Room 6 on the west and to yet another door
leading to Room 19 on the north, the floor consisted of a layer of
fist-size stones embedded in lime mortar. Room 19, the largest of
the three, was paved with pebbles set in the same kind of lime
mortar. The three rooms, as described above, represented the final
phase before the ultimate destruction. Pottery finds suggest that this
destruction may have occurred in the late 4th or in the 5th century.
The fill from the floors, especially in Room 19, yielded a mass of
big dressed blocks, including decorated fragments of the vaulting of
a niche, all the blocks of a cornice and an engaged column with
capital (fig. 6) recalling closely the columns and capitals of the
niche in the west wall of the main triclinium (no. 1). The layer
accumulated upon the blocks revealed pottery material of the
6th century: fragments of Phocean ware (f.l), CRS f. 9 and probably
10, fragments of African amphorae of the spatheion class, imported
Egyptian "chocolate" amphorae of Egloff type 172.
The pottery and coins found inside and right under the last
floor of Room 18, and in a trench on the site of the plundered E-W
wall in the northern part of Room 19, indicate that all the rooms
were erected and the floors laid in the late Constantinian period at
the earliest, probably even slightly later. All three rooms were
erected on top of earlier structures. The pebble floor in Room 19
continues southward under the north wall of Room 18, indicating
an alteration of the earlier arrangement and the existence here of
a different and larger structure. In Room 17, traces of an earlier
lime floor were found some 23 cm below the mosaic. To the east of
the room, the early lime floor is bordered by a sort of a channel
running south.
In Room 19, traces of earlier structures are well visible in the
northern part (fig. 5). Now plundered, the E-W wall had originally
been bordered on the south by a pebble floor; on the north, it had
adjoined a small rectangular basin with a stone sink and yet another
strip of pebble floor to the south of the basin (fig. 7). The pottery
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leading to Room 19 on the north, the floor consisted of a layer of
fist-size stones embedded in lime mortar. Room 19, the largest of
the three, was paved with pebbles set in the same kind of lime
mortar. The three rooms, as described above, represented the final
phase before the ultimate destruction. Pottery finds suggest that this
destruction may have occurred in the late 4th or in the 5th century.
The fill from the floors, especially in Room 19, yielded a mass of
big dressed blocks, including decorated fragments of the vaulting of
a niche, all the blocks of a cornice and an engaged column with
capital (fig. 6) recalling closely the columns and capitals of the
niche in the west wall of the main triclinium (no. 1). The layer
accumulated upon the blocks revealed pottery material of the
6th century: fragments of Phocean ware (f.l), CRS f. 9 and probably
10, fragments of African amphorae of the spatheion class, imported
Egyptian "chocolate" amphorae of Egloff type 172.
The pottery and coins found inside and right under the last
floor of Room 18, and in a trench on the site of the plundered E-W
wall in the northern part of Room 19, indicate that all the rooms
were erected and the floors laid in the late Constantinian period at
the earliest, probably even slightly later. All three rooms were
erected on top of earlier structures. The pebble floor in Room 19
continues southward under the north wall of Room 18, indicating
an alteration of the earlier arrangement and the existence here of
a different and larger structure. In Room 17, traces of an earlier
lime floor were found some 23 cm below the mosaic. To the east of
the room, the early lime floor is bordered by a sort of a channel
running south.
In Room 19, traces of earlier structures are well visible in the
northern part (fig. 5). Now plundered, the E-W wall had originally
been bordered on the south by a pebble floor; on the north, it had
adjoined a small rectangular basin with a stone sink and yet another
strip of pebble floor to the south of the basin (fig. 7). The pottery
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