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which supported the roof around the open central square The stone fragment in question would then probably belong to the eastern or northern column.
In the section line itself, midway over the south-eastern rock edge, another hewn stone was also found in the lighter upper layer, at a height of 0.40 m above the cement floor.
– A summary of the observations made at these three mutually parallel sections thus gives the following result: The layer conditions are best studied in the south-eastern parts, where the earth has been preserved to a greater depth than in the northern ones. Against the south-eastern wall, earliest of all, on the cement floor lies a limited layer, consisting of light mud-brick earth, fallen down probably from the highest parts of the building (the 2nd storey) (In section c one observes in this layer a number of thin red earth streaks near the floor, which may possibly be remains of the collapsed roof around the central square in room 14.) After this lighter upper storey had been destroyed, the upper parts of … continues
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