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… where they were evidently later thrown into disorder. The excavation proceeds in the direction of the deep trench on the west wing and the smaller trench above it, which now has been joined to this. The work is made considerably harder by the peculiar layer-sequence. Beneath a c. 0,15 m thick black surface layer follows a c. 2 m deep layer of roughly head-sized stones which downward are held together by hard-packed earth. Beneath this there is a glimpse of, still however not fully establishable, a very hard mass of gravel, which very steeply slopes up towards the eastern eisodos. The plan of the excavation here is the removal of the earth between "Room south of the stairs eastern stone corner" and the above described previously described deep trenches at the eastern wing. - For to avoid the stair steps at the cavea being damaged as the work approaches the orchestra, these, here along the cavea a c. 1/2 m is left.
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