ge residential housing units with storage annexes, most probably for the elite. The houses were all large with finely crafted jointed walls of dressed stone. On the more narrow side streets, smaller stone houses with tile roofs were built on either side.Excavations under later Roman barrows also show living areas edging right up to the city walls, however the use of old city as waste also reveals how the city was not completely surrounded but open to size fluctuation at the boundaries. One such house found comprises of two series of two chambers surrounding their own courtyards. One section’s courtyard was cobblestone and had a square mosaic in the center. What is interesting in this courtyard is that not all four sides of the peristyle are identical. Three of the sides are single storied with four Ionic columns and the western faade has a double story with varying columns on both levels. Although this particular house was built probably in the second century BC, the site it was built upon was continuously occupied since the seventh century BC. This is shown in the collected pottery fragments turned up by creating the barrow which provide examples from almost every previous period.Near E on the diagram, along the wall of the Bug estuary, lay the commercial district. Here is a spring with a broad area of low- lying ground where ships could be beached. There are two roads, one that runs along the river and another, which moves inland. This area has produced the largest amount of coins further indicating the main commercial zone. Other commercial finds include a pottery factory with four kilns, two large and two smaller ones. It has been determined that the larger kilns were for baking large vessels and tiles and the smaller ones for kitchen and tableware. One of the largest buildings in town was a bakery. There were six rooms, with ovens in three of them. But perhaps the most influential feature of Olbia is not to be f...
