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… the corner has for some days been under way and here has increasingly taken on the character of a quarry, because of the peculiar layer sequence. C. 3 m from the extension of the top step of the stairs toward the east begins a wall laid of irregular stones, held together by a hard white gypsum mortar, which since this is extremely common at the site, will receive a special name. This wall is followed in the same direction as the stairs approximately m where it however seems to end without any clear boundary. Immediately west of this wall, at a certain level, a quantity of fragments of painted stucco was found, all of which were taken care of. To try to obtain something ordered, coherent through careful excavation proved on trial to be fruitless. The stucco fragments have evidently covered the wall on its west side and from there fallen down into the fill; … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain