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… a border with a double meander is partly exposed. The mosaic itself rests on a hard-walled foundation of plate-sized flat stones in a double layer. In the edge of the trench to the south a further wall is brought to light, similar to the previous one. Between these walls, which run parallel, up-some scattered remains of a mosaic floor on the same level as the other are taken up. The whole structure is presumably the remains of a house complex from the Roman period. The first floor is cleared and photographed, whereupon the excavation is halted at this point. Between the walls, on the other hand, the mosaic's foundation is broken up so that the earth layers beneath it can be studied. The excavation thus appears to give a negative result at this point too give a (trial trench 2) give a negative result. The statue that gave occasion for the investigation here was in fact found entirely close to the surface and therefore hardly has anything to do with the deeper layers beneath it. In trial trench 1 the deepened part has been brought to a conclusion
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