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| a) Mended from three pieces, preserves floor and part of rim.
b) Non-joining rim fragment.
Moulded ring foot; very flat floor with shallow hollow at center; rim turned down and in; fine groove around ... 5-6 July 1946 |
Rim and neck with part of shoulder and stumps of both handles.
On one side, dipinto in black on shoulder:
On other side, dipinto at base of neck:
Coarse clay, burned gray. Previously North Basement-Jar ... 8 July 1946 |
Rim and neck with both handles and part of shoulder of an unglazed amphora.
Dipinto in black on shoulder:
Fine clay; a run of some substance (interior waterproofing?) down the neck. Previously North ... 9 July 1946 |
Part of shoulder and one handle of a coarse amphora.
In black on shoulder:
Pink clay with white grits, unglazed. Previously North Basement-Jar Fragments, Block IX (2nd.-3rd. A.D.). Well, basket 52, ... 9 July 1946 |
| Upper part of neck with mouth and the single vertical handle missing. Ring foot; high straight narrow neck.
Incised on shoulder: Δ Ο Μ
Incised on neck:
Reddish-buff clay; thin dull orange-red glaze, ... 10 July 1946 |
Intact. Ring foot; convex body; keeled rim with projecting flange at bottom. Two grooves below lip; rouletted band below these grooves; two rouletted rings around center of floor.
Orange-red clay; solid ... 15 July 1946 |
Complete. Pointed body ending in flat standing surface; narrow tapering neck; slightly thickened rim.
Painted in black on shoulder: Λ Υ C Ι Ο Υ
Coarse pink clay with grits, covered with creamy wash ... 15 July 1946 |
Nearly half of a round disk preserved.
Bottom plain. Top moulded in relief: petalled flower around a central hole, and ivy leaf pattern outside. Lifting lug with two holes beside it near rim.
Coarse pinkish ... 17 July 1946 |
The basket handle is broken away; edges of spring preserved on breaks at rim. Restored in plaster. Ring foot; deep rounded body; slightly projecting rim, flat on top. Decorated in white: looped ribbons ... 18 July 1946 |
| Mended from many fragments; complete except for chips and most of double rolled vertical handle. Ring foot; round body with projecting bumps many of whose tips have broken off, leaving holes; straight ... 20 July 1946 |
| Mended from several fragments; about half of body missing. Moulded foot; short stem; shallow convex body; high straight rim with out-turned lip. In relief on body: boukrania with pendent ribbons, garlands ... 20 July 1946 |
Intact. Stand for small round-bottomed pot?
Orange-red clay; no glaze. Sand in post-Sullan drain. 3774 Leica PD 1091-55 ... 22 July 1946 |
| First interpretation: female head.
Head of man wearing heavy rolled crown.
Broken off at base of neck; one side of crown misisng; face much worn, features almost obliterated.
Traces of white.
Grayish-buff ... 24 June 1946 |
| Large head of bearded man.
Broken off at neck; line of break perhaps original bottom of this piece and is the point at which the head was attached to rest of figure.
Head turned to left; wearing wreath ... 26 June 1946 |
Broken off at neck.
Head with hair parted in middle, wearing a high coif.
Traces of red on face, yellow on hair. Brown late Roman fill. 3749 Leica ... 17 July 1946 |
First interpretation: satyr mask.
Slave mask in high relief, with pierced grooved handle (like Roman lamp handles) above.
Traces of metallic black glaze almost entirely peeled off.
Gray clay. Well, dump, ... 24 July 1946 |
Circular wheel with a square cutting through the center.
Outer face grooved for, and worn by, rope. Well, fill 8. Leica ... 17 July 1946 |
| Rodney S. Young ... The objective of this year's excavation was to clear the southern part of the section to bedrock. Features earlier investigated (the 6th century cemetery, the Hellenistic-Early Roman terrace and one large ... 31 May-14 Aug 1946 |
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