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Restored perspective view of Xenon. |
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South of the Oikoi lies the long and narrow Xenon or hotel building (longer ago erroneously identified as a gymnasion). Its north wall cuts through one of the kilns, and it was constructed as one of the buildings in the program of the late 4th century when the Games were returned to Nemea. It consisted of a series of "apartments" of two or more rooms each. Each apartment was entered by a door from the road that ran along the south side of the building, and each has evidence for cooking in at least one room. 
Room in Xenon with stone paving of cooking hearth in corner, from southeast. It seems likely that either the athletes or the judges of the Games were housed here. The central part of the Xenon served as the foundation for the Early Christian Basilica. 
Curious terracotta "casters" or "egg-cups" found in Xenon and in Houses (P 1502, P 1501).
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