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… for room 7a a further section is laid out. The section begins 1 m S.W. of wall 7-7az next to wall 7-11 and for excavation-practical reasons has the course that the plan shows. C. 0,80 m nearest the rock one observes a number of fairly strongly marked horizontal layers. These layers, which have very varying horizontal and vertical extent, probably stand in connection with the palace's ruination Nearest the wall lie pieces of large red (dark) raw bricks. The earth fill is otherwise throughout horizontally stratified and evidently added with rainwater from above room 24. It is not unlikely that the courtyard level at this place is marked by a bank of grey hard-packed clay with embedded red lumps next to the wall towards room 11. The clay prevents the water from penetrating through the wall to room 11. I
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