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… the excavation is bounded downward to about 1 m below this edge. At the termination of the wall to the north, a firm built support for the rock is found, and the wall built above it, in the form of irregular ashlar stones, laid with a very hard gypsum mortar. This firm stone substructure extends farther in toward the theatre than the previously mentioned rock edge, thus indicating that the wall support has been interrupted. This is also evident from some broken stones and traces in the gypsum of others, which have been entirely removed. The wall support ends at a steep rock edge, which afterwards passes forms the termination of the floor in the "room south of the stairs in the eastern stage corner." This rock edge, has which lies at a level about 0,50 m. lower than that beneath the substructure wall, … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain