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… the pole.
27/10. In the section only the stretch 124 – 132 is being worked, where the last clearing of the gypsum floor (see fuller description further on) remains. In the theatre the work is mainly concentrated on 3 main points. 1) The west wing of the cavea, where the earth-cutting still continues. The earth is carried from there straight down the slope to a place where no walls are found and where the rock rises very close to the ground surface. 2) The east corner of the stage, where a well-dressed (corner-?)stone has been exposed in a place which indicates that we have met the stage's boundary towards the orchestra. The trench is being extended in the direction of Trial Section II. The presumed corner stone lies entirely in line with the rock edge (the boundary between the established rock and the mysterious white earth, which has not yet been definitively interpreted). In the trench at the east stage-corner the same white gypsum layer is found as in Trial Section II, though at a somewhat higher level
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