Writing Wednesday: Rooms VIII and VII in the Roman Bath at Isthmia

I spent the last couple of days traveling from Greece to Cyprus and getting settled back into a slightly different routine for the final week of my summer research leave. This week is truly Janis-faced with part of our energy going to taking the final photographs for the our work here at Polis and part of it writing up a report on the work we just completed at Isthmia. Among the various goals that we had at Isthmia, one was to sort out the stratigraphy and depositional history of Rooms VIII and VII in the Roman bath. These are important in part because Room VIII has “the e-shaped feature” building into its west wall which we have associated loosely with the Early Medieval activity at the site. Room VIII also saw a late renovation which involved the installation of a clay floor prior to the robbing out of its east and south walls. After the walls were robbed out, an apsidal building, also associated with the Early Medieval settlement, was built across the robbing trench. In other…