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c

Upper most Fig. 126a–c
Second from top
Third from top a. Reconstruction of the
Lower most revenue office, final phase,
unroofed. View from the
N 10 m northeast
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b. Reconstruction of the
revenue office, first phase,
roofed. View from the
northeast

c. Plan of the revenue office
with remains of mosaic
floors from four different
phases

of the law court a series of rooms was uncovered Fig. 127
over the vaults along the decumanus. These may
have been the rooms of the court officials and Greek inscription on the
clerks. lower level of the portico
at the front of the revenue
Located northeast of the lower courtyard is office, which notes that the
the “revenue office” (skrinion) (Fig. 126a–c). This sub-adjutors (hypobohethoi)
complex comprised seven rooms arranged around a central hall, open to the cardo. made the mosaic
Three, and at times four, levels of mosaic floors that were found in the rooms and
the portico in front of the complex, inform us about the various changes that
occurred in it during the hundreds of years it was in use. Greek inscriptions from
the different levels identify the complex as a “revenue office” and mention various
office holders, including an accountant (noumerarios), clerks (chartularioi), and
subadjutors (hypobohethoi) (Fig. 127). At a later stage, part of the central hall near
the opening was transformed to serve as a reception room with stone benches.
Stone benches were also installed in other rooms, damaging their mosaic floors.
This indicates that evermore people had recourse to the services of the office –