Things were really quite interesting today in our A1 square. For the last few days we have been uncovering a cistern and just last Thursday (which is the end of the week-aka we dig from Sunday to Thursday) we found the beginnings of a Corinthian Capital. This style of capital has the ornate acanthus leaves decorating them. You can see a picture below. But today all of these finds came around and we got most of them wrapped up. As we hit the bottom of the square we also realized that there is a large paved stone floor and Dr. Schuler is hypothesizing, based on many factors, that there is a large room here which had massive stone arches to hold the ceiling. Here are some pictures of the process.
This is the beginning of the cistern find.
This picture was taken right before breakfast today. The cistern is finally dug out.
This is our nice floor that was uncovered in the last half hour of the day.
This is one of the column sections being lifted out.
This is the capital and a column section after being lifted out.
Well thats about all. I'll keep you posted as things progress this last week.
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