The building |
Description and function |
A small house, receiving light from a long central area (13). The area has a marble well-head and behind that a bench above which was a niche. A room with a barrel vault and a skylight in the back may have been a store room (11). Both vestibule 1 and the external staircase next to it are flanked by brick pilasters. |
Date |
Severan. |
Nrs. 676-684
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Description |
Nine cornerstones at mid height can be seen in the facade, in the entrances of the external staircase and rooms 1, 15 and 14. The lower stones in rooms 1 and 15 rest upon a threshold and are L-shaped. The lower stones in room 14 do not rest on a threshold. The upper stones (in the external staircase and room 1) are L-shaped.
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Date |
The stones are in the Severan masonry. |
Measurements |
Meas. Boersma, 676: starts at 1.37; h. 0.12; 677: resting on threshold; h. 0.15; 678: starts at 1.37; 679: resting on threshold; h. 0.12; 680: starts at 1.37; 681: resting on threshold; h. 0.14; 682: resting on threshold; h. 0.09; 683: resting on the ground; h. 0.11; 684: resting on the ground; h. 0.18. |
Remarks |
The south jamb of the staircase has not been preserved to a sufficient height for a cornerstone at mid height.
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Plan of the building. North is to the left. After Boersma.
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