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14 and 16, and feel certain that they come from a place (probably in the At Meidan region) which was at its height from the 6th or 7th to the 3d century B.C. There is some excellent Attic stuff. It was filled in in the first half of the 2nd century A.D. -- Jewish rebellion? Of trench VI I have done the top strata (a meter or so), and find there too a great deal of classical material. My sherds run generally much earlier than I had first thought: only trench II is almost pure 4th century, and maybe even fifth. The lamps are awfully late.
So far as I have worked, it seems that almost if not all of our trenches run back into good hellenistic times,
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