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… laid of huge ashlar blocks. The wall is parallel with the preceding one and measures 1,20 m in breadth. This wall has not yet been excavated to its full depth. Inside this wall the earth changes character entirely. It is no longer the dark or red layers that hitherto occurred in the trial trench. Below the surface layer the fill consists of roughly fist-sized pieces of chalk-white gypsum and small light-coloured stones. The bottom of this layer has not yet been reached. It is clear from the slopes in the levels and from the appearance of the walls etc. that we have here entered an interior, into a room in a very large house, probably the same as was excavated in the first week. One may therefore henceforth not need to hesitate to call it the "palace", partly on account of its dominating position and partly on account of its size. Moreover … continues
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