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I solved the question by blowing up the padlock that prevented us from operating the sluice gates and by putting on a padlock of which we obviously have the key. This high magistrate of Engomi has perfectly digested the method and abandoned his dreams of bakchich As already explained, we have focused on the hypothesis of the West gate (offset) and to date we are working on 80 m which will allow us to check 3 streets E W, including the one south of the Service excavation, the one passing in front of sanctuary paving and house 18, and the one passing near excavation 1955. As for the gate, since yesterday evening we have the beginning of a magnificent threshold organised with the architecture of the rampart. We had to go down further than the 1953 excavation, which had only constituted a linear detection aiming at delimiting the outline of the town, We have also a uncovered near the rampart,
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain