South Wall

Renée Forsell

The wall is built in op. incertum consisting of mainly limestone, some tufa, cruma and lava stones set in yellowish buff mortar. There are two bands of tesataceum transversing the wall. The lowest consists of seven rows of tiles located between the heights of 1.05m and 1.35m above floor level. This band of tiles is broken in the W part of the wall where there is a repair of a hole probably made by treasure hunters. The repair reaches from the floor almost all the way up to the upper testaceum section. The upper row of tiles consists of four courses and is located at the height of 2.5m and reaches up to the lower level of four square beam holes. The beam holes penetrate the wall.

There are substantial remains of very weathered and grey plaster on the wall. I the E corner it reaches all the way from the floor up above the beam holes. The easternmost beam hole is partly covered by the plaster, which shows the beam holes are not part of the upper floor construction of this room but of V 1,2,5. The plaster is damaged along the floor and a part is missing in the middle of the wall. In the upper part of the wall the plaster is only preserved in patches. There is also some plaster coating on the stones in the upper part of the wall.