Day 2: An Interesting Feature
It was a second day, a hot second day, for pulling weeds and cutting brush. Not much exciting there. But while resting briefly I noticed something I had not seen before. It has to do with the lintel of the doorway we will probe later in the season.
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This decorative lintel on the House of Tyche was an entrance from a small street. To the left of the lintel stone is another decorative stone. Today for the first time I noticed a notch in the upper left of that stone.
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What was the purpose of the notch. Did it perhaps hold a torch lighting the entrance at night. I set a trowel in the notch to suggest that a torch might have been placed there to light the entrance at night.
![](https://northeastinsulaeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/trowel.jpg)
I will have to find comparanda for this interesting feature. It is certainly more interesting than all the weeds we pulled today.