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The wall with large, long block on top dividing 1 - 1a is pre-floor level - its fdn belongs with the best ARC. constr. It ends against Rock at the S, just under face of wall between 1 & 2 and was cut at N, ca .60 south of north wall of 1. (Fate wall - 1 -)
Rooms W: 3, W:4 originally made 3 rooms. Lower level of the entrances or sills? are quite plain for the eastern two. They are at level of floor flags of W:4
W. Entrance, Wall to N. of threshold is double faced, and 1.40 th. Is this because they carried out the line of west face of - 5 -? and also used E. face of a parallel wall N. of entrance. This last of best ARC constr.
Drawing: plan of wall and entrance; labels: 1.21, .08, > .80 <, x
[,28 not conn. W. of door, least = 1 m. If holes in slab E of threshold are in centre, door would be twice as wide or would have been a double door Door valves would stand or swing against the deep Jambs.
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N.B. E. wall room N:3 has to be shifted. The door cuttings for N:4 are ok. [illegible] have now measured.
The cistern in S E. corner of vestibule must have been closed when vestibule was paved - or there must have been an awkward re-entrant to clear mouth of cistern. - or - which is possible, mouth of cistern, if still used, could have been spanned by a low arch whose top could have been below floor level.
W. Corridor - 5 openings of about 2:30 m. Begin 1. m from S. face of wall at S. end of room.
Aug 9Taking levels at Theatre - Villa Entrance to W Portico
Drawing: architectural cross-section; labels: .54, .60, .65, .60, .20, .20
Section, Stairs to W. Portico
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain