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… stories could probably be told in connection with the finds in Efremi's sphinx field, but their truth-value is not fully established, so they perhaps have a lesser value.
The following therefore describes the excavations in the interesting "Sphinx field": To begin with, a trench more than 40 m long is staked out in roughly N.S. direction, only a few metres east of the sphinx site. The trench is dug down everywhere to the rock, which in the southern parts is found at less than 1 m depth. In the middle the earth masses are c 2 m At the far north the earth is insignificant. The trench cuts obliquely through a complicated system of right-angled walls laid of river stones and held together with gypsum mortar. It is impossible to establish whether the walls belong to a single large building. Their character is shown by the plan and section drawings. The earth is characterised … continues
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