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May 10dig to show southern SE corner (wh 0.25-below ground so not preserved) of rooms 5. 1st Bldg; may 11th left blocks #12 & sill under it (found in debris S em of allen N of #8) + other blocks from N-S wall of earlier floor of rooms S of E-W rt. 5 & clean up fallen stuff E of Southern 4.5m. of this wall [Photo may 11th = after most of cleaning May 12- clean top of N section of this wall. Find S. block of this section, top of wh is at level of a little lime of So. doorsill of Alley, c 2.65-4.00 from NE corner a heavy terribly worn threshold of door leading down into room. N. socket hole has remains of gypsum at bottom & SE edge. So. hole had in & above it 2 frgs. of a small stone horse whose mate (cut in same stone), mutilated badly, was found in very hard packed earth c 10 W of threshold. 2 of the three frags. appeared in modern surface (1939.40 ?) as very small stones.
Drawing: labeled with numbers; labels: < c 1.30 >, -07, -32 -40, -88, -94, -28, -44, -65
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/// good rubble wall. ±0 = threshold Fallen col. 1.20 long diam c 45/43 empities went down E. E diam larger Beside col N side small quantity of fallen stones A c. 06 SW & 2 almeside & in trench (EW) dug 12 May a dump of stones at and just below surface top levels ca -40 & -65. Under these stones a fairly uniform buff earth stratum wh seems to have been the surface (floor?) to wh col. & its row of stones fell & were dumped. This flo also lower than very hard packed area W & SW of threshold The col. seems to have
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fallen from the corner its lower (E) end touches /stairs or wall that must have made the transition here from S up to N. was completely lacking when the col. fell. Underneath col was only clean earth wh I imagine came in as mud. Of pier-like, placat in corner stone E of it the stones above N of it were doubtless from rubble that filled the space between col & the orthostats.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain