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SKETCH OF 20:15b showing plundered tomb and fallen brick wall
3cm: 1m.
Drawing: ; labels: N7, MOST DEEPLY
EXCAVATED AREA, BED ROCK, STOMA, BED ROCK, MUD BRICKS]
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20:15b 125
June 25, 1954
With no change of earth continue down and come upon a level with mud bricks of a greenish gray color and of considerable size (est. 30 cm in length) bonded together by red mud. What we have is a large section of either a fallen wall or a collapsed roof.
Instead of using bench mark in 20;15(a) establish a new one on braxos in 20:15(b). The uppermost part of the collapsed bricks mentioned above is - 98cm in respect to this new mark.
Photo BAM '54 no. 11 Fallen brick wall looking down from W. " " " no. 12 " " " " " E
June 26, 1954
Remove fallen bricks, preserving one in more or less complete condition. to a level of -1.25, which reveals the stone foundations of the wall to which the bricks must have belonged embedded in line of our trench N-S on the west side (see plan p. 122). The stratification is now becoming clearer. The red mud which I took to be bonding or 'mortar' for the bricks is merely part of the dark red brown rather soft stratum, filled with small bits of chavara,
(To p. 133)
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain