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10-12-35 either A'5 or A'β' Cistern No 2
Dig to floor — 60 cm. of loose fill at sides: ca. 0.05 of firm earth over red concrete floor. In center, 1.50 from sides, is a lower section.
Bevelled join of floor & walls.
Drawing: bevelled wall-floor join; labels: wall, floor, Wall plaster 0.05 thick at floor, 0 1 2 3 4 5 cm
lower diameter (estimated) 5.85 meters.
cleaning hole 90 deep. In it a thin layer of thick mud, as on the main floor, and over that a hard fill 0.30 deep. In this fill lamp with vertical handle & raised filling hole, and frags. of two ribbed pithoi.
In loose (late) fill two inscription fragments.
Fill (loose, late), 0.40 — coin [inserted in red: C 2075] [inserted in grey: Aretas iv / Nabataea]
The loose fill may well date in large part from after the destruction of the palace. We found the large stones which covered it plainly visible above ground. No doubt the cistern was open for a long time, thus accumulating rubble, and at last closed by shepherds.
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12-12-35Upper Mosaic Room E'2'x
Loose fill over wall — bevelled sheathing block cut out of mosaic inscription
| 0.18 x 0.06 x 0.22 | (drawing) |
| I 173 |
do. inscription
| 0.075 x 0.045 x 0.015 | (drawing)] |
| I 198 |
| 13-12-35 S E. end of N-E semi-circle. Top-soil — coin | [marginal note: Theodosius / II / 408-450] |
Red text: C 2076
Photos II 2-4 of area cleared
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain