1949

THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

CURIUM EXCAVATIONS EPISKOPI, LIMASSOL CYPRUS

May 7, 1949The excavations of the Palace have continued. As was expected there was a clear path around from the entrance of the West hypocause to the Eastern one. The entrance to the [handwritten: East] west hypocaust was cleared of the stones which closed it. The cistern under the east extension of the building has been cleared, as well as the cistern [handwritten: ] immediately to the south of the east hypocaust. The fill in these two cisterns was very similar and contained signs of coming from some catastrophe. Both these cisterns were closed off at some late period of use. The cistern under the east extension of the building opened into a large cistern on its north side. In this section, four distinct periods were immediately visible: the first, when the cisterns were used for water; the second, when a wall was built under the north edge of the building and the drains were sealed off; the third, when a large number of heavy architectural blocks were thrown into the cistern together with a quantity of sandy soil; the fourth, when a wall and platform were built across this [handwritten: fill.] cistern to the east of the building, another cistern was excavated enough to show that its use as a cellar coincided with that of the rest of the building, but that it went out of use as a cistern probably about the same time as that of the cistern to the north of the east extension of the building, for the wall that crossed this latter cistern also covered two of the water