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… which lies entirely below the level of the floor, there must of course have been a more artistically decorated well structure, whose stones were meanwhile carried away. This destruction presumably took place at a time when the red bottom layer on the cement floor was there. This is indicated by the red earth that extends down among the uppermost of the cistern stones, where it is also mixed with the white gypsum-lump earth. It is worth noting that also the crown (the smaller stele) came into its present position after the red bottom layer had come. The same probably applies also to the larger stele. – Regarding the estate's other architecture it may be mentioned that the large stairway in the north-western parts is destroyed and the finely dressed stones partly carried away, partly heaped up in the field nearby. This has according to information from the landowner happened only some year before the beginning of the excavation (possibly spring 1927) (See on this in the description of trial trench 1). The three stone rows on the other hand have, as the undisturbed layer sequence above shows, been destroyed in considerably earlier time. Already before the … continues
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