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had been encountered at the level of the vessels. Here, we are in the clay red and find a few sherds -
Well 52/57 - At 6,30 m depth, start of a black earth, more and more muddy - Huge sherds (Canaanite jars etc) There are also small ones, but the workman cannot find them, in the black and the mud - The women examine the spoil at their exit - From about 6,50m, and down to the base, bones of a large quadruped (cow or horse?). We have head, vertebrae, a long bone. It is therefore very probable that the skeleton was incomplete, which is moreover evident given the diameter of the mouth of the well. Why was this debris thrown there? Deliberate pollution of the well during a war -
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain