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21-7-51 2:1 Start removing ca. 1.00 m. of platform in W. corner of 2:1. The S.W. wall of 2:1 runs about half this width of the platform & then is disturbed. JFD had shown a corner here, but the few stones here inside the wall sit on the topmost preserved white floor & we remove them. Find this white plaster is laid with stones and seems to form a solid platform ca. 0.23 m. wide along the wall. This seems to have been built later than front of it goes down a fill that appears to be mud-brick. There is a brick standing on edge forming the outer face, its front ca. 0.73 m. in front of NE face of wall.
A second white strosis occurs at 0.18 m. below the top one. It is ca. 0.02 cm. thick & rest on more hard brown fill. The brick is found to rest on the 2nd strosis and is removed. No. When we start removing the brick we find that the white plaster of the 2nd floor goes up the inside of the brick! As we dig down below the second strosis we find a heavy plasterfacing ca. 0.09 m. thick of the wall between 2:1 and 2:4. Since the wall is missing here, this seems to give clearly the corner, which is just in line with
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