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… of a large rectangular house, with large gypsum-bonded ashlar walls, is begun The outer faces of the walls are followed to c 0,80 m. depth on the southern and eastern sides The deep excavation of the walls is postponed for the time being.
20/4Observations concerning the soil conditions in Trial trench 1: The earth is very strongly varying in colour depending on different mixing of two sharply distinct soil types an almost milk-white gypsum-like earth and a dark red, which seems to make up the main-bulk on the top plateau. The earth below the north terrace wall, thus both between this and the north wall as in the room with the pithos, is completely unmixed white under the dark surface layer, and contains sparingly and coarse plain pottery of roughly the same type as the pithos. It is probably Hellen- Roman. From the north terrace wall onwards however the earth entirely changes its character. It consists of white … continues
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