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<u>Trench 7 - "South door"</u> iii, 12- Trench A-Δ with upper soil removed, showing fallen stones. iii, 17 Trench A-Δ with second str. removed, Z-H with top soil removed. iii, 30 and 31 - Views of door with upper bed of stones removed - from S & E. iii, 35 - View from south with second bed of soil removed iv, 4- With Outside door, with all top earth removed, stones in place.
Heights from point recorded p. 48. Block of outer wall about 4 meters W of trench : 0,93 Large havara block by S W corner of door - 1,88 SW corner-stone of door - 2,66 Χαβάρα floor in doorway - 3,28 Highest wall block E of trench - 1,08
June 19th The soil here is for some distance disturbed, due both to earlier quarrying and the tree which grew right in the center of the doorway and whose roots extend everywhere in the fill. The soil all about is block from the roots, but badly disturbed. Within the doorway at c. 20cm, the black earth is mixed in with havara, which may have been part of the door paving, but the tree-roots have broken the fill all apart. We are removing this top havara along with the black earth, and also clearing A-Δ. June 19th No euthynteria blocks are preserved in A to Γ,
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but the foundation courses of the apse has appeared in A-Δ I-O-Λ and Σ-Ξ-K, - square cut ashlar facing the wall cutting to E & W. The havara which we have been removing is surely the remains of the gate pavement, filling the space between these foundation courses. The havara is full of sherds, mostly pipes. A frag inscribed [illegible] was found outside in section Φ, where havara seems to continue.
Drawing: plan of gate structure
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June 19thIn alpha & delta we have reached a hard surface of red earth with white pebbles, to which I shall clear. The foundations of the euthynteria appear similar to those in trench 1 south; the filling of the seating section also remains.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain