East Wall

Description

A. Karivieri & R. Forsell

The wall is located between rooms c and d. It has a north-south orientation. The wall is built in op incertum and consists of mostly limestone, some cruma, reused terracotta, one of reused wall plaster, and a couple of lava stones.

Wall-plaster:
The wall has some remains of wall-plaster and is to the greatest part covered by several layers of plaster coating. In the upper zone there are remains of wall-plaster as well as layers of plaster coating. The background is white in the upper and lower zone. The middle zone has no preserved remains of colour, but there are chop marks in the plaster coating. The middle zone plaster has a cruder texture than the upper and lower zones. There are remains of red decoration, red stripes, in southern part of the lower zone. The southernmost is found 0.77m from southeast corner, and there are 0.27m between them. In the northeast corner there are remains of earlier red wall painting under the plaster coating near the floor. Traces of red stripes can also be seen on the plaster coating of the lower zone.

State of preservation:
The upper part missing and upper most part reconstructed. There is some wall-plaster on surface.

wall: l. 3.10m; h. 4.23m.

wall plaster: lower zone h. 1.59; middle zone h. 2.73

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