House 2 is located on the large terrace between the public bath and the early Christian basilica in the archaeological area of the eastern sector I of Ancient Eleutherna (Katsivelos site). It consists of two wings with rooms on either side of a large rectangular atrium. The southern wing has two large rooms, and to the north there is an area divided by a wall into two narrow corridors. The building has two construction phases. The first phase was probably interrupted shortly before the last quarter of the 3rd century AD, when the building changed form and possibly use, before being finally abandoned at the end of the 4th century AD. A drainage channel was uncovered, sloping from west to east, with its floor and sides coated in thick reddish hydraulic plaster. After the abandonment of the house, a box-shaped tomb of the Early Byzantine period was built on the fill of the atrium. The northern side of the house includes six rooms, some of which are well preserved. On the lintel of one doorway, the inscription “Νείκην τωι Κυρείωι” is engraved. In the same room, within a destruction layer, finely worked bone objects, forty-two bronze coins, and other finds were discovered. In another room, fragments of a mosaic floor with geometric decoration were found. The building also had an upper floor, which likely contained the women’s quarters. The destruction phase of the house may be linked to the persecution of Christians under Trajan Decius (249–251 AD).

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