Main Buliding

The walls were decorated with frescoes, unfortunately very badly damaged by the fire, and the floor was divided into squares, seven rows of seven, delicately painted with linear patterns as well as with semirealistic octopuses, dolphins, and other fish in alternating squares (Figs. 21, 22). The narrow passage also had painted decorations on its floor with an octo¬pus and linear patterns.

Figure 21. Detail of octopus in floor fresco, room 50.

Figure 22. Detail of dolphins and fish in floor fresco, room 50

Figure 23. Stirrup jars

A neighboring room to the southwest (53), accessible only by going around through the corridor (51-52) and en¬tering from the southwest, was possibly a lavatory. Seven¬teen stirrup jars (Fig. 23) stood on the floor to the left of the door, and near the eastern corner water could run down through an opening in a large stone slab to an underground drain.