Pergamon. Dr. Wolfgang Radt reports: "In city area, the trenches of previous seasons joined through excavation of II/CDE (see plan AJA 82 [1978] 331, and here the detailed plan, I). The gap in the plan is due to demolition by Byzantine builders. A Hellenistic peristyle may have stood here, to judge by many architec- tural fragments (Doric capitals, columns, geison) found reused in later walls. In II CD/Io-II Hellenistic fountain house with a rockcut, vaulted cistern; in II DEF/8-II, a large terraced Hellenistic house with courtyard, reused in Roman times. house had three rooms at ground level opening to the street along the S side; the courtyard had basin and cistern; to the N and E there were proba- bly porticoes at a higher level with roofs draining to the cistern. In Roman times minor changes made to the house. Wall-painting (white fields, frames, socles) is partly preserved; the N (level 230.78) had marble-incrusted orthostats a massive marble socle; fragments of painted stuc- co resemble those from the Trajaneum