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Nov. 9.
Second small trench begun yesterday just south of traces of wall which is continuation of wall at A-a of Tr. 2 to find same water pipe & rock-cut conduit running level with wall. Dug out 2d stratum Tr. 1 A-B, 2d stratum B-Gamma, 2d stratum Gamma-Delta, Epsilon-Zeta, Zeta- Eta, also Theta-Iota. Dug out 3rd stratum Zeta-Eta 150-200 & found it mostly contained archaic sherds. Dug 2nd stratum Tr. 2 Delta-Epsilon, Gamma-Delta, Beta-Gamma, Alpha-a.
Nov. 11 (Monday). Dug Tr. 1, third stratum of betagamma. No other work in Tr. 1. Tr. 2 dug Epsilon- Zeta west (dutikos) 2-14 & 16-20 first stratum. 16 to wall west of 16. 2nd stratum begun 10-14. 2nd stratum also 8-10 Zeta-Eta 2nd stratum. Continued digging out cistern.
Tr. 3 Eta-Iota first stratum. This trench is continuation of small trial trench just south of wall shown in Tr. 2 plan p. 10 at A to find continuation of water pipe and water conduit. See plan p. 16.
Nov. 12. 4th & 5th stratum of Tr. 1 beta-gamma between walls (see plan p. 6). Tr. 2 Epsilon-Zeta west 20-26 first stratum also 2-4 3rd & 4th strata. Tr. 3 continued digging first stratum. A-I
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