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7 /8 /[?bra!… the described objects. It is a (geometric) plate diam 19,5 (7) standing in a larger similar one diam 24 cm (8). These plates' position indicate at hand that they have not been noticeably disturbed from their original position. The earth above them has admittedly in recent time been stirred, but a study of the earth column which during the excavation formed under the plates proves that the layers have been produced through an in washing in of clay together with water. The earth immediately under the plates is very loosely packed and mixed with small bone pieces. There- ] below begins the horizontally stratified clay right down to the base. The base lies in this part of the tomb at a higher level than further in. The floor slopes inward evenly. Here (further in) is however observed precisely the same layer relationship as at … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain
