Nea Paphos (Cyprus), 2014

Nea Paphos

Dates of work: 24 August–22 September 2014

Team:
Director: Dr. Henryk Meyza (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Archaeologists: Prof. Jolanta Młynarczyk (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw), Prof. Wiktor A. Daszewski (emeritus, University of Warsaw), Rozalia Tybulewicz (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences), Edyta Marzec (PhD candidate, Institute of Archeology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow), Dorota Mazanek, Julia Mikocka, Monika Więch (all PhD candidates, Center for Research on the Antiquity of Southeastern Europe, University of Warsaw), Agnieszka Kaliszewska (PhD candidate, Faculty of History, University of Warsaw)
Architects: Dr. Aleksandra Brzozowska (Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Science and Technology), Anna Kubicka (PhD candidate, Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Photographer: Maciej Jawornicki (freelance)
Archaeologist-trainee: Rafał Bieńkowski, Mateusz Ambroziak, Łukasz Karol, Weronika Karpińska, Łukasz Klima, Natalia Kotyńska, Marek Makola, Jędrzej Szczypuła, Agata Śmieja, Martyna Tyczyńska, Marcin Romaniuk, Anna Zydler (all Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw)

The area of the main courtyard (1) of the “Hellenistic” House was excavated below its ancient surface, establishing the stratigraphy of this architecture with late Classical and incipient Hellenistic strata below the courtyard and early 2nd century AD fill above the basin and surrounding floors; thus, the construction of the main courtyard of the “Hellenistic” House turned out to be later than believed to date. The exploration of the cistern under the southeastern part of the courtyard was continued and another water supply, a well, was found in the northeastern corner of the corridor. The building sequence of the porticoes of the courtyard was also studied in a test trench in the southwestern corner of the unit. Another test in street B at the southwestern corner of the House of Aion uncovered a sequence of floors and the southern elevation of a building under a late Roman street.

[Text: Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 25]

Contact
H. Meyza: hmeyza@iksio.pan.pl