2. Cilt - Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı

traces of intensive cultic activities during the 6th cent. B.C. can be observed inthe archaeological record. Obviously the gathering hall alone was already inuse during the short life of the building.3. The Younger WallAs already mentioned, during the very last days of the second campaign afoundation wall was discovered, running against the southwest corner of thetemple. It had evidently been built after the destruction of the temple, since itsfilling contains fragments of roof tiles of the temple.During the campaign of 2007, this wall was fully excavated. At its fulllenghth of 36.8 m. it parallels the southern wall of the temple at a distance of3 to 4 m. (Fig. 5).From its weak construction it becomes obvious that this ‚foundation wall‘was not intended to support any higher structure of some kind, but merelyserved as a low terracing wall. The interstice between the southern wall ofthe Panionion and this terrace wall had been filled in with debris of stones,rooftiles and pottery of the 7th and 6th cent. B.C., thereby partly covering thecollapsed southern wall of the temple (Fig. 6). Apparently the terrace wasbuilt only shortly after the burning of the temple, since the southern wall ofthe temple had not completely collapsed at that time.A thin stratum of limestone split underneath the destruction layer of thetemple has to be interpreted as decay of the trimming of the stone for thefoundations of the temple. Between this stratum and the natural soil a layer ofbrownish clay served as levelling. It contained many pottery fragments of the7th cent. B.C., debris of the cult at the Carian naiskos of the 7th cent. B.C.The terrace in front of the southern wall of the Panionion is a ratherprimitive construction which could have been built within a couple of days.It apparently was not the prelude to the rebuilding of the temple which,anyway, never occurred. More likely this terrace formed a primitive fold forsheep and goat, thereby using the southern wall of the temple, still partiallystanding, as a back wall.At the foot of terrace wall a south Ionian lamp with flat rim, central coneand raised base was found (Fig. 7). It equals type 12B of the Athenian Agoraand dates to the 3rd or even the 4th quarter of the 6th cent. B.C. 99 Type 12B: R. H. Howland, The Athenian Agora 4: Greek lamps and their survivals (1958) p. 27nos. 79-81 pl. 3. 32; type 12 variants: ibid. p. 26 s. nos. 76-78 pl. 3. 31.193