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End of excavation in J8/1-J8/2
J8/2 . Main features:
- incomplete massif 491, in the same alignment as 459, 488, 490. The massif, whose central alignment is on a steep slope towards the north, was covered with brick earth: it still covers the west alignment, visible in south section (sounding). A raised witness of this massif was left to the east, above the probable east alignment.
- clearing of buttress 493 of wall 432.
- deep sounding, in J8/1-J8/2, at the foot of buttress 449: floor 477 and marmaro 447 reached. In this sector, it appears that a "parapet" separated the "basins" from floor 477: the plastered impression of a low wall (of slabs ?), bordering to the north the marmaro plaques, and rising 0.50 m above floor 477.
Remarks: - in the sounding, situated below the level of fill of brick earth which covers massif 491, the fill is exclusively formed of crushed yellow sandstone; - it is above this fill, separated by a layer of konos and stones, that the "wall" packing 450 is founded (excavation 1985)
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain