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… thick, brown ordinary plough-soil lies under the earth beneath the stair-level consists of a hard-packed mass of gypsum This level is also the same as the smooth-hewn rock immediately north of the gypsum earth. Here traces of a pottery floor are also established. It is thus clear that the first cement court, through a gateway with a threshold arrangement (?) (the row of stones with the wing-hewing in the rock and in the profiled stone) and further through a staircase, stands in connection with a higher-lying floor, extending northward roughly to the extension of the stair-step wall and westward c 5 m ? To the east the floor, to judge from certain insignificant hewings in the rock, seems to have been bounded by certain wall sections now impossible to reconstruct. In connection with these hewings may be mentioned a square cutting c 46 cm across … continues
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