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wäg o u / [?2… less than half a metre. From the eastern scene-corner to this place a firm road is made for the wheelbarrows which all here shall carry the earth from the orchestra and the scene. In connection with these ground investigations the work is interrupted in "Trial trench below below the scene terrace". – The work in the section trench on the 3rd and 4th terraces eventually comes to an end, as the rock has been reached in several places. The workmen who thus are left over are moved to the theatre, where the earth on the terrace above (a spur of ter III) is removed nearest the modern field wall above the cavea. The terrace wall itself is meanwhile spared for the time being, since the earth would otherwise slide down onto the cleared cavea below. The aim of this work is to expose the theatre's enclosing wall, which here disappears under the mentioned field wall and on the eastern side appears to emerge again. The earth removed here is partly tipped down onto the southern slope near where the rock comes to the surface. Further down the necro- … continues
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