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2,12 / 2,02 / 4 14… the lower end of the large column lies 2,12 m from the break surface. The column's total height is thus (base and capital excluded) 4,14 m (roughly, since the break surfaces were not fitted together when the measurement was taken). If the column has fallen towards the west, its base should be found on continued excavation towards the east. Probably capital 3 (possibly also one of the others) belongs to this column. At the lower end of the column three large ashlar blocks are found displaced from their position, loose in the earth almost directly on the floor. The stones, whose exact position is insignificant, are removed. The earth in this direction becomes increasingly mixed with large, more or less destroyed ashlars, possibly collapse from the neighbouring wall, possibly the remains of stonemasons' and roadworkers' operations. The trench is extended further towards the east. – Beside capital 3, in the western part of the trench, there is likewise exposed in the trench wall another Corinthian capital 4 standing upside down on a … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain