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Line faintly written across page: (Line of E wall seems to fall further E in upper level.)
BACK (W E) WALL OF TOMB, N HALF TO SHOW REACH INTO AREA OF TOMB OF PEBBLY TORRENT FILL (Extent along N wall visible in section of tomb drawn by Elia. On the floor it crosses the corner disappearing at the NW corner (drawing)
Drawing: cross section
Result of later flooding.
Drawing: plan of fill and tomb wall; labels: EDGE OF BACK WALL OF TOMB, FLOOR OF TOMB, 40, 30, 20, 10, ca. position of #70
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9 Nov /40 Working on Sunday, as we may have to leave Cyprus Thursday on the last boat. Christo and Achmet both at work clearing away the fill the surface of which was the floor of burials previously cleared. (Much conversation) Further evidence that I is throw-in fill: [letter crossed out] lg #74 mirror lies tilted in the middle of I (N of 2.00 point). Achmet continuing to clear skeleton of child along N wall, still finds no pebbles in covering earth but only underneath. Toward W, fill increases in thickness, ht. of scarp near #74? mirror .10 to .11 Small gold objects found in it near surface (#68-69) perhaps not churned up from earlier burials but settled a little from e.g. burial no. 4, p. 9, since, Christo says, gold often found sl. below its surface because of wt. Same may be said for gold bead #70
NE childChild skeleton cleared by Achmet along N wall near E end: head W, body extended w. arms at side. Much less well pres. than adult (see p. 42 etc.) Best pres. part the right (?) femur which however shows a concave, presumably dorsal, surface. Otherwise: shattered tibia of same leg, part of
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain