Final Summary

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Strata

No strata could be discerned in rectangle 6/7.  However, there was a difference in the concentration of both carbon and terracotta fragments.  As the profile on p. 26 indicates, the majority of carbon was found in the bottom half of the trench, usually mixed in with terracotta fragments (tiles and pithoi), and occasional clumps of hard whitish soil.

Also in evidence in Section A, near the bottom of the trench, were some large pieces of brick ( cf. the plan on page 3 : the large red brick in the northwest corner, stuck in the western profile).  What may be part of a fallen beam ( see section on p. 18 ) was found in the center of Section B.

The earth on both the eastern and western sides of the trench was not cleared as far as the upper building foundation walls.  This was done to prevent undue winter erosion.

The stones encountered in the bottom of the trench (cf. p. 27 and plan on p. 3 ) need further cleaning and excavation.  They do not appear to be bedrock since there are terracotta fragments mixed in with the rock (also

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note that many fragments of the "large bean" plate were found in between these rocks).  Thus, the stones could be part of a crosswall for the lower building (although no wall is indicated in the trench profile) or perhaps part of some kind of packing for a pavement.

Finds

Ivory and wood

Four objects:

• Find 2, p. 9: ivory or perhaps wood.  Has incision and modeling on its upper surface.  Perhaps it is part of a figure or of a handle
• The other three fragments (Find 3, p. 15; Find 9, p. 33; and one piece of wood, uncatalogued, found while sifting) may have been parts of handles or perhaps fragments of furniture.

Bronze - was virtually non-existant.  Three fragments were found, all small and unrecognizable.

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Fine Pottery - was abundant

• One piece of Italo-Corinthian
• Several fragments of Ionic bowl
• Many sherds of "Laconian (?) ware" (also referred to in this book as "imported" ware)
• One rim sherd preserving a "small bean" finial
• Many pieces of fine incised large plate with "large bean" finials
• Three fragments of a decorated cut-out cooking stand

Coarse pottery - was in evidence but was not abundant with the exception of pithos fragments.  Worthy of note is the bottom half of a fine yellow "amphora," pieces of which were found over a meter apart (cf. plan on p. 5 ).  Also, many pieces of pithos with corded decoration were found.

Terracottas - only one piece - a fragment of a ridgepole tile with "corded" decoration on its edge ( Find 2, p. 47 ).  The "odd" terracotta fragment mentioned on p. 49, on further examination, turned out to be part of a covertile.

For a plan of the major finds see p. 5.