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the apsidal bath(room 43) were found only 4 coins. The xxxx xxxx coins west of the vertical pipe could xxxxx xxxxx possibly have fallen in through the vertical pipe. Most of the coins were illegible, but A.R.Bellinger was of the opinion that they were of the fifth and fourth centuries. Of the 144 coins in the east part,12 were identifiable. The earliest were four of the xxxxx sons of Constantine, C2407 C2468 C2468-9-70. The Theodosius II C2505,C2605. Of the 97 latest were two of Theodosius II C2505,C2605. Of the 97 coins in the western part of the drain under room 44,xxxx 7 were identifiable. There was one of Ptolemy IV and one of the sons of Constantine C2402. The latest was a coin of Theodosius II C2696.
447. If they fell in fortuitously, they must have fallen in either from the drain in the bath or the drain in the foot-bath xxx or from the vertical pipe on the west side of the frigidarium(room 39). That they can have entered from the mouth of the drain on the west side of room(44) is extremely unlikely,because this mouth was blocked up and they would have had to have been moved up against the downward slope of the drain. The coins west of the vertical pipe may have fallen in through this pipe but it is unlikely that those x to the east did as they, too, would have had to have been carried up against the downward slope of the drain. As there was a layer of plaster over the floor of room 44,
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain