The International Ez Zantur Project

Preliminary Report on the 2001 Swiss-Liechtenstein excavations at ez Zantur

by Bernhard Kolb and Daniel Keller

VI. Ez Zantur IV: Rooms 44, 47 and 49

Because of their poor state of preservation, it is difficult to say anything specific about the two rooms 44 and 49 located to the west of altar 50 (Figs. 1 and 18). Of the completely plundered walls BP and BD, only the impressions of stones in the underlying surface have been preserved thanks to the careful work of square supervisor M. Grawehr. The walls BQ and CA are in somewhat better repair, but most of these structures have also been lost. The same applies to the floor coverings.

Fig. 18: The west terrace edge of EZ IV with rooms 44 and 49 in the foreground, seen from square 95/AJ (photo: D. Keller)

It can be concluded from Fig. 18 that a rock-hewn channel covered with crude slabs passed through room 49 and effected drainage in a westerly direction. Room 47, which adjoins room 44 on its western side, belonged, like the rooms around triclinium 32, to one of the terrace buildings below the mansion on EZ IV. With a floor level of 922.50–60 m, room 47 is roughly 3 m lower than room 44 (925.42–46 m). After 6 years of excavations, the structures unearthed along the west flank testify to a high building density on the slope, bordering the main building of EZ IV over its whole length.

Bernhard Kolb
Seminar für Klassische Archäologie
Basle University
Schönbeinstrasse 20
4056 Basel
Switzerland