Vouni IAlfred Westholm

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… the walls. It has previously been mentioned that the north wall of house 1 is laid on the step-wall of the temple but that a close connection between these exists. The situation on the south side, however, shows that the temple's west wall next to house 1 has been destroyed and then of course in connection with the building of this. It thus seems inevitable that house 1 is considerably later than the temple it was probably built when this the temple had already been destroyed. The difference between these buildings is further marked by the soil conditions, which was already observed at the beginning of the excavation and gave occasion for the excavation's interruption in an eastern direction from house 1. Over house 1 the earth was very loose and bemixed with gypsum. Also found here were numerous roof tiles and pottery fragments as foreign to the rest of the temple excavation. C 1 m outside the walls of house 1 changed the earth abruptly its character to that which has repeatedly been described in connection … continues