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amphora stamps and two better preserved vessels, but more time is
needed than was available in order to restore any sizable quantity of
transport amphorae.
Kitchen cooking ware is plentiful, but few vessels were
restored owing to the brittleness of the sherds which makes it
immensely difficult to attribute the small pieces to a particular
vessel. Apart from a fairly intact casserole, a section of another
cooking pot, a colander (fig. 1:4),11 was restored thanks to the
characteristic perforated bottom. A deformed misfired pot was
equally easily spotted and mended; this piece evidently suggests
that a pottery workshop must have been situated nearby. A brazier
attachment with a silenus face and a wreath of wine is also related
to the kitchen wares and so should be mentioned here; it represents
a type which does not occur in the House of Dionysos.
At the present moment, we can say that the cistern's fill is not
a primary dump with deposits slowly accumulating over the
centuries. It seems that the cistern was used to redeposit a domestic
dump of unusable pottery and minor objects; it is significant that
there are no terracottas and relatively few stones in the fill. There
are some ashes, but not really enough to suggest fire debris,
inevitable if an earthquake were to be the cause of deposition.
Therefore, the most probable source for the debris is a household
dump removed from some nearby place after a speedy
accumulation, possibly in consequence of some rebuilding.

11 J. Hayes, Paphos III, p. 139, no 100, fig. 34 top.

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