In 2019, T26 is established in order to reinvestigate a building intermittently excavated between the late 1980s and early 2000s which has become known as Orientalizing Complex 2/Workshop (OC2). This structure consists of a plaster floor interspersed with three rows of limestone column pads which supported wooden beams carrying a terra cotta roofing system. The column pads are irregularly and occasionally augmented by flanking smaller stones which are hypothesized to have lent support to the wooden beam structure in some manner. It was contemporary with Orientalizing Complex 1/Residence (OC1) and Orientalizing Complex 3/Tripartite Building (OC 3), but preceded by Early Phase Orientalizing Complex 4 (EPOC 4; see KRK XIV), possibly an earlier residence, and Early Phase Orientalizing Complex 5 (EPOC 5), possibly an earlier workshop.

T26 is positioned in order to incorporate one of the column pads and one of the small auxiliary stones of OC 2. In previous excavation, the tops of the column pads and auxiliary stones were uncovered, but excavation stopped at the level of the plaster floor surface. To that end, the aim of T26 in the 2019 season is:

To section through the plaster floor of OC 2 To determine the depth of a column pad of OC 2 To determine the nature and function of the small auxiliary stones of OC 2 To better understand the building techniques employed in OC 2 Depending on what is revealed, to lift a column pad of OC 2 and investigate the stratigraphy beneath it To uncover details which will clarify the chronology of the OC structures in relation to the EPOC structures