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1-4-35Room with Stairs
L 202 In fill over mosaic: lamp frag., type 22
Carved Blocks
1. Frag. of column of blue marble. Deep .23x.23x.10 twisted flutes with arrises.
2. Moulding - corner. Section. (drawing) grey limestone The same on both sides .12 x 15 x .10
3. moulded side; (drawing) Face .32 x .24 x .12 palmette(?) on face. grey limestone.
4. part of grille. .16 x .23 x (drawing) Lmistone .065
5. curved moulding (columnbase?) white marble section (drawing) .14 x .11 x .06
6. marble block (drawing) .17 x .10 x .02
7 marble slab .13 x .11 x .02 poor shallow carving
Numerous marble slabs
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3-1-35South Mosaic Room R-Δ' 100 'Room B' A'B' 0p
ca. 0.28 below lowest step - floor of hard packed earth. It is cut through for the steps to the cistern, & also by those at right angles to it. At its eastern extension, the sandy-brown fill found over the mosaic goes to this hard layer. As it extends westward, we find a layer of black earth with ash, and, further west, sand over it. In this are pieces of the pinkish cement the mosaics were set on. Over this was the brown sandy earth noted above. At the west end of the cistern steps, the black layer continues under the step
L 204 B'0p by stair at right angles to length of room: frag. of lamp, type 28. red-brown clay; solid handle. Impressed herringbone(?) on rim. In soil above hard floor mentioned above.
Drawing: ; labels: brown fill. sandy, mosaic, pink plaster, sand, black, hard floor, not measured
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain