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AREA E HOUSE I (Daniel)
The stratification of house I: The construction of the house is dated by the sherds found among the stones of the levelling course of the southeastern wall of E.I.6. Two successive intermediate stages are illustrated by sherds found on rebuildings of the original floor of E.I.1, and in the material of the (upper) floor. The material in the bothros in E.I.7 presumably also dates from the occupation of house I. The destruction of the house is dated by the potsherds found in the accumulation on the floor of E.I.6, (and in the building debris in the cutting in E.I.2.) All levels of houses II AND IV are later than house I. [handwritten: (Cannot be dated in E.I.1 or in the 2nd platform)] [handwritten: No sherds in the earliest floor]
A. The construction of house I is dated by the following:
1) The original plaster floor of E.I.1 lay between 7.30 and the bed-rock at 7.46. It contained the following sherds:
No plain ware 1 sherd R. L. III 1 " " Base Ring I 1 " " Monochrome 3 decorated sherds
2) The following sherds were found among the stones of wall b, in E.I.6.
35% plain 9 sherds White Slip I 7 " " Base Ring I 9 " " Wash ware 2 " " Burnished 27 decorated sherds
B. The relaying of the floor of E.I.1 is dated by the following:
1) Accumulation over the 7.30 floor. This immediately antedates the rebuilding. It contained the following:
33% plain 2 sherds White Slip I 5 " " Base Ring I 7 " " Wash ware 1 " " Painted, rich creamy clay 2 " " Thick creamy slip 10 " " Red Polished 27 decorated sherds
2) The second plaster floor lay between 7.25 and the accumulation over 7.30. The following sherds were found in it:
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain