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This indicates that the west wall of large room and its south wall were all built so at one time to conform to a general plan. This one time more or is the same as that when the servants room (A rooms), the entrance mosaic room, and the floor of the rooms to the west of the west mosaic of the mosaic walk were laid.
This is v. p. 148-9. This not quite so for while in south trench west of room Alpha there is a cutting in the third layer and lower in the south trench while there is a slight indentation there is no cutting for east wall.
v.vol. XIII / p.77v. p. 137The coins in Rooms Alpha , Beta, Delta Epsilon all are of the same period Yes these three periods. v. p. 171 alpha If In south part of room, there would thus be three periods, the first Hellenistic with the lower walls the second with the north and and west wall and the third with the cutting for south wall. Of course, it could might be that the would sout north north wall of room alpha
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date Between rooms Gamma and 140 Delta no trace of door.
Beta is is not part of the original plan but a later addition, &
The The crux of the matter lies in the reason why the south wall, of room Beta, rests on soil whereas the other walls rest on bed rock. If Certainly the constructing architect did not always rest his walls in whole or in part on the bed rock. On the other hand If it is a change from the original plan of the architect, could it be part of the change of plan whereby the large room was united into a who one room. Why the floor of Room Gamma be flagged anyway Flagging must be more expensive than an ordinary dirt floor. Could room Gamma be rather a vestibule to room delta which is an entrance room from stairs on west. Certainly, the architect took care to place a vestibule by his oth the main entrance room. Why was the area by the A rooms just inside the door flagged. Certainly if Room Delta is an entrance room, the only possible explanation of Room Gamma is that of side vestibule. But is a side vestibule necessary? P.T.O.
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