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… ligen the purpose of the excavation soon to be achieved reached. The earth under the floor has on the whole the same character as immediately above. Above the floor, however, all earth has been extremely poor in pottery with the exception of some large very hard roof tile slabs. Under the stone floor, on the other hand, was found, though sparsely smaller sherds (Roman and one Hellenistic) As the work sank downward the earth became damper until finally water was found at a depth of 0,80 m from the stone floor's level. This deep excavation has thus The Asvesti wall, however, continues downward to this level, where it rests on an entire base of asvesti (cf. the walls in the house on Ibrahim's field p. 15) This deep excavation has thus given a negative result. and the trial pit is refilled with earth. In the pit's trench edge hardly any stratification could be observed. After the pit is filled the excavation is again continued eastward as before along the stone floor. In doing so is found … continues
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