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Trial trench 1.… towards "Petra tou Limniti" in the northwest. The trench is for the time being planned down to a point 2 metres below the large wall just mentioned, running in a W-E direction. The excavation is first completed in the lower northwest part of the trench, which is why the description proceeds from below upwards. The trench is c 1,50 m wide. On the north side of the large wall just mentioned ("nordmuren") the rock is encountered at a depth of 1,90 m below. It should be noted, however, that this is not the original level of the rock, but that a room has been cut out here with a horizontal floor, which was covered with partly preserved gypsum. That it is really a question of a room is proved therefrom by a corner in the rock wall with a further cut wall in the longitudinal direction of the trench. This wall has been further raised with ashlar stones. In the corner between these two walls, standing on the base, a large pithos was found, damaged in the upper parts. Through its undisturbed position … continues
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