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… should not baffle a doubter. They lie at a higher level, where the wall is destroyed. Two corners of the sunken room have thus been established with a wall between them (the west wall). South of the south wall no statues have been found despite deep digging. West of the west wall the deepening also took a trench called Δ2 – Ε2 for the corresponding investigation. Here too no statues are found. In the extent of the section towards the north the layers are again horizontal and without statue fragments (one exception n 8) should not be taken into account, as it lies at an entirely different, deeper level.) The statues do not lie in the sloping collapse fill but in a layer nearest the base (the floor) consisting of a dark reddish-blue clay. This is very hard nearest the floor but becomes considerably looser upwards and mixed with gypsum lumps. Throughout the clay small pieces of charcoal and hard-burnt bone flakes are found. The highest of the statues (especially in the south-west corner) stick up out of this layer without being om- … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain