. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. p : Ijut the stone tank built into tiie north-east corner (Fig. 7),which we tuund full oi small plain cups, terracotta loom-weights, and stonepestles, and also a complete steatite lamp from two metres depth, wereearnests of better to come. And in fact on the following day, afterclearing the next room to east to a depth of nearly two metres, and establish-ing the existence in it of a square pillar, built up of two blocks restingon a base (Fig. 8), we came on the source of the painted stucco fragmentsalready noticed in tiie roadway to north. The stuc
. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. p : Ijut the stone tank built into tiie north-east corner (Fig. 7),which we tuund full oi small plain cups, terracotta loom-weights, and stonepestles, and also a complete steatite lamp from two metres depth, wereearnests of better to come. And in fact on the following day, afterclearing the next room to east to a depth of nearly two metres, and establish-ing the existence in it of a square pillar, built up of two blocks restingon a base (Fig. 8), we came on the source of the painted stucco fragmentsalready noticed in tiie roadway to north. The stucco in this room (see infra, p. 70) lay nearly all ftice downwards,from oO above the lloor level down to that level itself (about 250 metres belowthe surface). Below that level began a layer of unproductive .stones whichwas thoroughly .searched in 1809. Not one single fragment of stucco remainedon the walls. Adhering, however, to the square pillar was a bit of plainred stucco, ami manv other fragments were found in the earth about the. Fi(!. 8.—Pillar built of two Blocks. base. The finest blue fragments were found towards the centre of theroom; for example, all those showing flying fish. Nearer the walls laypieces of thicker and coarser plaster painted with bands of plain colour, andbacked with traces of pebble concrete. These in some cases were curved, asif they had formed a cornice. The finer fragments, being very thin and veryrotten, were most difficult to separate from the heavy mould in which theylay; but working delicately with knives for three days we succeeded inrecovering the greater part, that had not been pulverised by the shock ofthe original fall or the action of damp. In the communicating chamber to south appeared at about the samelevel numerous pieces of stucco with red ground colour, on which werepainted white lilies with yellow tipped stamens. The third and outermostroom (G 3 : 3) yielded no stucco ; and in all three chambers potsherds werevery scarce and whol
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