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Drawing: architectural section with layers
BATH, room 4 Section at 1.70 m west of east wall facing west. Scale 1:50 level top of east late threshold 2 strat. 3 3 a 4 a see p. 650 destruction debris many wares ribbed 6 see p. 1259 C 4 sherds only]
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DIARY be due to chovova but this is not certain. Mehmet and Michalis -sub foreman & ex-mason, think it was a deliberate fill. Hardly any sherds came out of strat 4 but more are coming out of 5. Removing surface soil in area west of Bath, Tr. 9 5-θ, north 14-20, dark earth with a good many stones of varying size. Removing strat 2 n.w. Room, Bath in S.W. corner. See section p. 1257. Digging small trench east of small plunge bath and north of large plunge bath. Began digging below level of mosaic floor in south portion of central room. section p. 1221-4. See Film 121- 2 and 3. Soft reddish dark brown earth with only small rough stones mostly less than fist size.
2 28 Apr 49 [margin left: S.e. room blocks] Removing worked blocks from strat. 5 of s.e. room, Bath to Tr. 9, 0-π, south 2.00 m immediately south of room and east of blocks piled up (w-0) from central room. See Film 120-36, section p. 1225. One of these blocks after turning over proved to be a jamb block, matching somewhat cont p. 1256
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain