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… can of course be interpreted as the remains of this rock which arose when the theatre was hewn out of the solid rock. The same layer, which has a very considerable extension, has been traced on in a connection, round the whole t although of course at very different levels, round the whole theatre It should in that case be clear that the earth and the layers found beneath an undisturbed rock-gravel layer of this kind must belong to a period before the building of the theatre and already at that time have acquired the appearance they now have. The mentioned rock-gravel layer is followed further to the south in the trench and extends at least partly over the things that are there.
28/3These are now to be described. The rock edge beside which the coin hoard was found proved on further clearing to be the wall of an irregularly shaped cutting in the rock, over the southern part of which a gypsum-faced wall has already been mentioned.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain