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15-5-35cont'd._ Orchestra on floor (0.40) coin [circled: he 2] [red ink: C 1047] Ins. 27 do. top-soil — Marble slab
Drawing: inscription; labels: [OI]TATI, NT[IOC
Ins. 28 do. do. do. 2 pieces
Drawing: inscription; labels: [illegible], [H]N
Find a floor, ca. 0.40 below the surface, in the orchestra. It is of hard-packed earth, with many stones (ca. 0.05 - 0.10 square). It seems to be very late, and may easily have bear no direct relation to the theatre as such. It goes over the line of the rectangular stage.
Yesterday and today we go through the upper floor in the corridor of the theatre. In it we find a great many fragments of fresco, and of mosaic, of the finest quality. They are from a floor with figure representations, done in very small stones with varied + brilliant colours. Notable fragments: 1. two arms holding an object, maybe a torch or military standard (fastiae) 2. Face 3. E L 224 In mosaic fill — frag. of Type 28 lamp.
16-5-35 Find one frag. of same mosaic in over level fill over light stone-powder floor outside entrance.
Orchestra, 0.80 Male fig. head with scythian hat
Theatre, left wing, just below wall, [red ink: C 1087]
| 0.40, in brown fill — coin [penciled note, circled: Ptolem[--] | a[s]c | Ptolemy | VI] |
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16-5-35
| Orchestra 0.85 coin [penciled note: [two crossed out illegible words] | Elagabalus | Ant.] |
Red ink: C 1118
Find second floor in orchestra, ca. 0.70 below surface. It is of packed brown clay, and covered with a thin layer (ca. 1 cm.) of sand.
Leave a sample of this floor, and continue down in west part. Slightly below it we find a N-S wall which seems to belong to the rectangular stage.
May 15we found part of a marble statue of more than life size, lying on the (top) first floor. It is much mutilated, but shows traces of drapery in shallow carving.
The wall of the semi-circular stage is covered with a layer of gypsum plaster, thick, with two panels painted in black. In the entering white panel are what may be traces of red paint.
The semi-circular wall has been cut on the west, apparently for the construction of a straight wall in connection with a later stagebuilding. The East N-S wall crosses over, and is consequently subsequent to, the semicircular wall.
Had today one pick and shovel each in: entrance to theatre, orchestra, stage, and each wing. One car man. Four bringing sand for covering mosaics, and four cutting thistles. One water-boy.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain