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… sherds, among them a cloverleaf neck.
All these points except 1 and 4 however form a boundary only upward in time. The earth layers which were up-dug and which surround the building are of course considerably less certain from the dating point of view. The assumption about the reddish earth as geometric archaic has so far not been refuted. Of great importance is that sherds certainly later than the Hellenistic period have not been found anywhere, and also those certainly Hellenistic to a fairly small degree. The purely Classical-Greek sherds make up of course the main part of those which certainly could be determined in the fill layers. Bronze-coin (91) is hardly likely to be dating, since knowledge of the earth conditions at the find-spot is uncertain. — In trial trench 5 an was found in the lower part no pottery. In the cement-floor's substructure fill a couple of classical sherds were observed, which evidently came there at a later date.
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