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39 date 26 October 1948
Area E wooden drain was partially clear. We dug to wall of room with cistern and plug stones. where fill changed, shards separate. We dug along this wall. Fill changed toward end. Dug out wall of to fill in wall from room with mosaic inscriptions. Fill was brown yellow. It seemed to extend the length of blocks or them which made this wall. Toward lower part there may have been stone or two in place. somewhat in place. Soft plaster in corner lower. Hard plaster or plaster in upper E
Drawing: corner of walls and drain; labels: plaster] see see
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Room E was dug out in corner near F.C. Fill same as before except directly behind closed door, [illegible] This was defined by strike in bed rock. And mass of stones which seemed to cut it off from drain which ran parallel to lower wall of E.
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40 date 26 October 1948
On other side of roof drain, possible remains of wall and beyond this στρῶμα The workers then moved up the hill to find line of wall up there.
Room 11. Much of mosaic cleared revealing inclination towards steps.
In Area E. The wall from the mosaic continues beyond, line of present running at right angles to it. This is either, to correspond to extension of wall up hill or it marks end of wall which existed as shown by roof cuttings behind present wall.
Work stopped 12:00
Work began 13:00
working outside of wall of E three layers, then one with stones. This layer with stones dug out revealing drain and drain turning corner, but no wall. This drain probably connects with drain in E at top of E. We dug along wall to about equal with end of wall below. We dug most of modern fill in bath in room I, and uncovered most of mosaic in it. worked stopped 17:00
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain