Vouni IAlfred Westholm

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… the grandly conceived plan in the palace-construction. At a depth of one metre a cement floor is found which then, interrupted only at one place by a well gypsum-walled wall-projection, extends can be followed - - - m in the direction of the trench. Here the floor ends against a - - m broad, very solid and well-laid terrace wall. Below this wall there is another, also very well-preserved cement floor, which runs m in the same direction, where the cement edge is profiled and step-shaped. Beneath this there are two further stone steps after which a third well-preserved floor follows, extending up to the rear wall of the magazine, which was earlier called the north wall. A tree in the direction of the trench below the north wall blocks the way for a further extension of the trench through the magazines. These are investigated however in another context. Nothing in the way of finds is made either in trial trench 9.