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146147.… the filled earth layers immediately below this floor-terrace. Level with the floor plane there runs namely a c 0,05 m thick border consisting of light small hard compacted stones and gypsum pieces without any binding agent. Without any doubt this is the continuation of the rock floor downward. The whole thing loses itself towards the terrace wall below which the floor is disturbed. The relationship is further marked by the great difference in the earth above and below the gypsum border. The earth above consists of ordinary red-black plough soil, which, as some stratifications indicate, came sliding down from above over the floor. Under the floor, on the other hand, the earth is much darker and of the same character as under the cement floor next to the palace, wall d. The earth also contains pottery, which is collected for examination. This Roughly in the middle of this rock floor a small terracotta statuette is found 146 and shortly beside it a fragment of a mould (terracotta) 147
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain