Soli, Cholades, and MersinakiAlfred Westholm

Moreover, a few architectural fragments are taken out, a Roman column drum and a capital. (See drawing.) From the longitudinal trench a transverse trench is taken out to the west, which touches the sphinx pit. Here too the same right-angled wall system is found, the same earth conditions and pottery. Quite soon to the west, however, the walls cease and the rock lies bare. In the earth outside the pottery becomes sparse. Through these trenches the wall system has been bounded to the south, north and west. The conditions to the east are investigated through a separate trench c 20 m east of the longitudinal trench and parallel to it. Here no walls are found, so that the wall complex can be considered fully bounded. A further couple of trial pits confirm … continues