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Notes on a recently excavated House at Girgenti

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Extract

This house, known locally as the Casa Greca, was partially excavated about two years ago at the private expense of the owner of the land: it lies on a level site to the east of the road leading from modern Girgenti to the temples, directly opposite the church and gardens of S. Nicola, and a short distance north of the Temple of Concord.

For the most part, the ground has here risen about four feet since the Greek period, and the existing remains present a complete horizontal section of the house up to that height, formed by the lowest drum of the columns and from two to four courses of masonry in the walls.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1906

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References

1 I was informed that this cistern communicates directly with the Bath in Room IV., but it was not possible to verify this at the time.

2 Ath. Mitth. ix. Pl. XIII.

3 Architecture of Greece and Rome, p. 145.

4 Pompeii, tr. Kelsey, p. 50.

5 e.g. Priene, house, xxxiii, p. 297.

6 e.g. Pompeii, the house of Sallust, Mau-Kelsey, p. 277.

7 de, Antidotis i. 3.

8 Priene, p. 295.