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… on the earth terrace lie two well-dressed ashlar stones in line with each other and with the edge of the wall toward the theatre. The two ashlar stones' outer short ends toward the facing walls are broken off with a coarse fracture surface. The stones are of interest since they evidently lie in the main in situ. The question then arises whether one has the right to trace a threshold- or floor level on the upper surface of these stones. I consider this excluded! Firstly, the stones are not worn. Secondly, c 0,25 m (see p. 48) was removed from the earth terrace immediately inside the stones and above their level. This highest, innermost part of the earth terrace, which had to be removed for practical reasons, had exactly the same character with alternating thin sand and clay layers as the rest of the earth terrace described on p. 49. If this earth terrace, as everything indicates, is a substruction for a higher, not yet fixed floor level, this floor level must lie higher than any trace of the thin fine sand-clay stratification and thus impossibly … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain