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Trench 2A

Jennie Lindbergh

View to South

Trench 2A measured 4 x 7 m and was excavated prior to the construction of a viewing platform on the south-western corner of the hill above the theatre as part of the program of development of the World-Heritage listed area of Kato Paphos.

The deposits on this part of the hill are shallow, and a long stretch of wall running north-south was already visible at the eastern edge of the trench. The excavation revealed an east-west wall with central threshold bisecting the trench and running up to the long NS wall. The floors of the rooms to either side of the cross-wall had been cut into the bedrock, thus also creating the foundations of the walls. The wall was bifacial of finely-cut blocks with rubble core, and it had been substantially robbed prior to the collapse of yet another east-west wall just to the south of the trench. Although there was no clear occupation-deposit associated with the floor, the artefacts recovered from the trench, which included some fine fragments of glazed pottery, are consistent with the period of Lusignan domination of Paphos. The lack of clear occupational evidence indicates that the structure, or this part of it, was used for a relatively short period of time, probably in the later part of the 15th century.

View to the west

The viewing platform now occupying this position affords a splendid view both of the theatre below and of much of the rest of ancient Paphos across to the sea.

	View to South Trench 2A measured 4 x 7 m and was excavated prior to the construction of a viewing platform on the south-western corner of the hill above the theatre as part of the program of development of the World-Heritage listed area of Kato Paphos.
The deposits on this part of the hill are shallow, and a long stretch of wall running north-south was already visible at the eastern edge of the trench. The excavation revealed an east-west wall with central threshold bisecting the trench and running up to the long NS wall. The floors of the rooms to either side of the cross-wall had been cut into the bedrock, thus also creating the foundations of the walls. The wall was bifacial of finely-cut blocks with rubble core, and it had been substantially robbed prior to the collapse of yet another east-west wall just to the south of the trench. Although there was no clear occupation-deposit associated with the floor, the artefacts recovered from the trench, which included some fine fragments of glazed pottery, are consistent with the period of Lusignan domination of Paphos. The lack of clear occupational evidence indicates that the structure, or this part of it, was used for a relatively short period of time, probably in the later part of the 15th century.
View to the west The viewing platform now occupying this position affords a splendid view both of the theatre below and of much of the rest of ancient Paphos across to the sea.