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… where some enormous marble blocks had earlier been brought to light. The wall that emerged here was followed partly on the gable side, where a flight of stairs with 4 steps led up to a floor consisting of the evenly cut rock, partly on the outer side, on the lower side of the terrace. Here the outer stone facing seemed to have been torn away, but on the evenly cut rock face traces of gypsum mortar were found . The lowest level of this stone facing was found sunk into the rock. To obtain further confirmation of this situation, two cross sections were opened further to the west, at right angles to the north-south direction of the scene, at practically suitable places. Here, at both places, a wall was found which, however, does not lie in alignment with the back of the scene described earlier. The newly found wall was of considerably weaker construction, possibly later. Over this wall the rock, cut here, continued as a … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain