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Division II Section A Part 3
part of the first century A.D. There are probably many which were built during the
second, third, and fourth centuries ·, but the great mass of private architecture here is
undoubtedly to be assigned to the fifth and sixth centuries. It will be seen that many
buildings of one class or kind of masonry have been repaired, or added to, in masonry
of another sort. The repairs and additions are, of course, later than the original
building, and, as it happens that they are constructed in a poorer manner, it is safe
to assume that whole buildings built in the poorer style are later than those which are
better built. Furthermore, those buildings which I believe to be of the more remote
dates, besides being constructed in a better manner, do not contain inscribed stones
placed at random in their walls ·, while the buildings which represent the poorer class
of work often contain Pagan inscriptions and old grave-stones worked in in hap-hazard
fashion.
Owing to the absence of dated inscriptions upon the houses, and the consequent
difficulty of determining their dates, in spite of the differences of construction, it is not
possible to take up the description of the residences in chronological order. I shall
begin with an example of the domestic architecture of the town, in which the plan is
very simple, and the superstructure typical of a large class, and then take up the houses
of more complicated ground-plan.
House No. XIX. This house is probably to be considered as a single residence
of the better class. It occupies the east side of a small court, the south and west sides
of which were once occupied by other houses which are now fallen in ruins. It had
fourteen rooms, yet it is so planned that it could have been divided for the use of two
Ill. 174.
families, only on the plan of a modern flat, allowing a storey and a half to each family.
The ground-plan (Ill. 174) speaks for itself; it shows a large arched room, facing west,
with three small rooms in a row on the north of it, one of which protrudes beyond
the west wall of the large room, and with a long narrow room on the south. The
transverse arch of the large room raises the ceiling to such a height that there is room
Division II Section A Part 3
part of the first century A.D. There are probably many which were built during the
second, third, and fourth centuries ·, but the great mass of private architecture here is
undoubtedly to be assigned to the fifth and sixth centuries. It will be seen that many
buildings of one class or kind of masonry have been repaired, or added to, in masonry
of another sort. The repairs and additions are, of course, later than the original
building, and, as it happens that they are constructed in a poorer manner, it is safe
to assume that whole buildings built in the poorer style are later than those which are
better built. Furthermore, those buildings which I believe to be of the more remote
dates, besides being constructed in a better manner, do not contain inscribed stones
placed at random in their walls ·, while the buildings which represent the poorer class
of work often contain Pagan inscriptions and old grave-stones worked in in hap-hazard
fashion.
Owing to the absence of dated inscriptions upon the houses, and the consequent
difficulty of determining their dates, in spite of the differences of construction, it is not
possible to take up the description of the residences in chronological order. I shall
begin with an example of the domestic architecture of the town, in which the plan is
very simple, and the superstructure typical of a large class, and then take up the houses
of more complicated ground-plan.
House No. XIX. This house is probably to be considered as a single residence
of the better class. It occupies the east side of a small court, the south and west sides
of which were once occupied by other houses which are now fallen in ruins. It had
fourteen rooms, yet it is so planned that it could have been divided for the use of two
Ill. 174.
families, only on the plan of a modern flat, allowing a storey and a half to each family.
The ground-plan (Ill. 174) speaks for itself; it shows a large arched room, facing west,
with three small rooms in a row on the north of it, one of which protrudes beyond
the west wall of the large room, and with a long narrow room on the south. The
transverse arch of the large room raises the ceiling to such a height that there is room